"O'Driscoll is a quietly exciting, subtly intelligent poet."— "O'Driscoll's crisp, unobtrusively musical precision gets to the heart of so many subjects, large and small."— "O'Driscoll is a real poet: his lines stay with you, and crop up unbidden in your mind as you go about your day."— , the final collection of work by the late Dennis O'Driscoll, weaves a memoir of his past into the state of the world today. The poems embark on a vivid journey through consumerism, our environment, and our fragile existence. is O'Driscoll's parting gift, granting a shimmering glimpse of what it truly means to be human. (1954–2012), editor of , was the author of ten collections of poetry as well as book of interviews with Seamus Heaney, . called O'Driscoll "one of the best-read men in the Western world."