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The Mrs Power referred to in the title of Fergus Allen's new collection is just one of the vividly realized figures, many of them female, who inhabit the Ireland of its author's childhood and continuing obsession. For this poet - born in England but brought up across the water - Ireland, from Dublin to the Gaeltacht, is a place of equivocal belonging and of a frequently disturbed sense of personal identity. Utterly convincing in the particularity and immediacy of their physical details, by turns comic and grim, governed by an original musical sense, the poems in Mrs Power Looks Over the Bay, whether or not their setting is an Irish one, show their author writing to more eloquent purpose than ever before.
