SOUNDINGS [2010] paperback ZCPIC three unusually talented contestants play

three unusually talented contestants play for the highest stakes of all

the Belles will fix you all over again

see where it all

who are not at all what they appear to be

'The best thing he has ever written' Observer

SOUNDINGS [2010] paperback ZCPIC three unusually talented contestants playSoundings was first published in 1969. It was intended as an 'interim' anthology of poetry for the Leaving Certificate until such time as a more permanent volume could be devised. Twenty six years later it was replaced. In the meantime it had passed through the hands of hundreds of thousands of students in Ireland. Soundings might have been replaced but it was never fully forgotten. Old copies ended up with an individual personality honed out of