‘Lost poets’ make good their early promise

Collected Poems 1986-2006, by Greg Delanty, Carcanet Oxford Poets, €21.85.

Strawberry Thief, by Sara Berkeley, Gallery Press, €11.50.

Out of sight and out of mind has too often been the fate of Irish poets who live abroad and miss out on the oxygen of publicity from public appearances.

Authors Greg Delanty and Sara Berkeley left Ireland to make new lives in America long before the Celtic Tiger.

Delanty first came to attention in ...