(yes, I have to get a collection of his instead of depending on these anthology things)
I started with The Haw Lantern (1987), which is still one of my favorites, but I also love North (1975) and Station Island (1984). The title poem in the latter collection is a twelve-part cycle in which the poet-narrator, at each prayer-station at this traditional site of pilgrimage, meets and converses with another shade from his past and Ireland's—the piece is full of echoes of Vergil, Dante, James Joyce, and it also sounds exactly like itself. I'd strongly recommend it.
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I started with The Haw Lantern (1987), which is still one of my favorites, but I also love North (1975) and Station Island (1984). The title poem in the latter collection is a twelve-part cycle in which the poet-narrator, at each prayer-station at this traditional site of pilgrimage, meets and converses with another shade from his past and Ireland's—the piece is full of echoes of Vergil, Dante, James Joyce, and it also sounds exactly like itself. I'd strongly recommend it.
As to the rest: thank you. I'm really glad.