Johnson: Another Language

Diarmuid Johnson:

Another Language – Poems in Irish, English and Welsh

Motivex, Poland 2009, 193 pp

Another Language is written in Irish, English, and Welsh. The poems in Irish derive from the period 2005 to 2008. The English poems span a longer period from about 1998 until 2008, though certain of them were drafted much earlier. With the exception of Cân Trystan, the poems in Welsh belong to the years 2003-2006 during which time the author worked at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Some poems included in Another Language first appeared in the pages of An Guth, Stoney Thursday, Fortnight, Transcript and The Cork Literary Review. The work in this book assumed its present form as a result of time spent at the Cove Park centre for artists in Argyle, Scotland in April 2008.