The Rough Field (6th edition)

$11.95

The sixth edition of John Montague’s major modern poetic sequence concludes with a revised and expanded section of notes by Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Since its publication in 1972, The Rough Field has been praised as the most significant attempt in poetry to understand Northern Ireland’s troubled history.

Praise for The Rough Field 

“Montague’s The Rough Field is a remarkable primer for those who would truly understand the division of Ireland today.”
– James Coleman, The Compass

“John Montague’s The Rough Field is a kind of ‘state of the nation’ poem, built up of visions and glimpses of locality, legend, and history, and as such it is astonishingly successful; moving, too, and as soundly crafted as the rosewood fiddle which seems to play with mourning sweetness in the margins.”
– John Bayley, The New York Review