The first of its three parts is a series of evocations of his native Buncrana in County Donegal, "my home town, my hard town; " another is rooted in the styles and subjects of Old English poetry. The centrepiece of the collection is 'Gyrfalcon, ' a sequence of sixty sonnets whose ecstatic energies embrace affairs, recriminations and a set of ghostings by the dead. "I believe only in what's rough, red and raw," he writes--a claim this edgy, ferocious, passionate work supports. His version of Ibsen's "A Doll's House won a Tony award in 1997.