The Rough Field

Name: The Rough Field
Author: John Montague

by John Montague

Sequence of poems mapping personal and cultural history of an Irish county and its people

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John Montague

Irish poet whose The Rough Field is a long autobiographical poem addressing Ulster's history and the divisions of Ireland. He cofounded the Dolmen Press.

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