Aidan Mathews’s first book, Windfalls, contained poems which won The Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1976. Seamus Deane writes — ‘Aidan Mathews’s first volume Windfalls, distinguished in itself, gave promise for the future. Minding Ruth fulfils, if it does not indeed go beyond the expectations roused by that first volume. These poems are preoccupied with experiences rending enough in themselves — the deaths of people known to the writer and of people, children in particular, unknown to him except in death — but their deepest concern is with the discovery or rediscovery of such experiences in and through poetry.’
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First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Condition: near fine, with near fine dust jacket. -- Irish award-winning poet, editor and journalist. ISBN 0904011399. Seller Inventory # 35654
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Inscribed and signed by author. Inscription to Ronan and Virginia. Page 31 has a slight red mark, but no text is obstructed. Corners, edges and spine bumped, resulting in some minor tears to the dust jacket. Seller Inventory # BT002