Product Description Old Men and Comets is a new collection of poems and prose poetry from one of the premier poets of our age. The poems include rememberances of things and people past, as well as rueful glances at things present. Here, especially, are the peculiar preoccupations of age, and some consoliongthoughts on death, all in all well-wrought in Enright's inimitable, melancholic, and ironic voice. Review `He is wise and intelligently innocent and observant. He is very funny, sometimes tragic, and the only poet I know in whom the English qualities of understatement and irony are not ultimately disappointing.' A. S. Byatt, Independent'These poems are a marvellous mixture of tragedy and humour - often ironic - where the pathos of old age, taking its pulse, finds a heart-beat yet. Enright has a deft hand for understatement, and his reflections on death are moving, to say the least.' Tim Large, The Word'Enright is always likeable' London Review of Books'Enright's carefully constructed observations can sound as if they have been translated from a beautiful foreign language in an artlessly literal manner. The subjects of the poems are mostly faultlessly remarkable; what makes them entertaining is the way Enright tells them.' Times Literary Supplement'deftly allusive, diabused, dewy-eyed only when it comes to the lacrimae rerum' Poetry Review, Volume 84, No. 4, Winter 1994/95 About the Author About the Author: D.J.Enright is a well-known poet, essayist, reviewer, and translator. His most recent books include Under the Circumstances: Poems and Proses (1991), Selected Poems, (1990), and The Oxford Book of Friendship (1992).