What Darkness Covers

Compassion and remarkable imagery combine...but always paramount, insight into the human heart.

Tony Curtis makes beautiful poems — compassionate, funny, elegiac. He's a song master, a riddler, a humdinger. He honours Samuel Beckett and his Granny with equal gusto. His Black Hills of Balrothery are as far-reaching as the Himalayas and he sees great distances from the peaks of both. But he is also a poker under rocks and a hoker in hedgerows; he finds a universe in a grain of sand. He is unique in contemporary Irish poetry, foraging and forging the uncreated, breaking all our hearts.