A Tour of Your Country John McKeown as well as the Wales

as well as the Wales Book of the Year Award in 1993 and 2006 for his collections of essays Watching the Fire Eater (Seren

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she has also co-edited a major work on Arab Women’s literature

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an astute and frequently very funny observer of culture and society

A Tour of Your Country John McKeown as well as the WalesIn his most wide ranging work to date, Eamonn Wall probes and meditates on the histories, habitations, landscapes and ecologies of ancestral and newly encountered places. A Tour of Your Country takes the reader from the American West to the Arctic to Wall's native Wexford, and to some spaces in between. Throughout, the poems record and explore the finely tuned tension that exists between the road and home, between routes and roots, and between the