Preparing for Spring – Nell Regan

A stingingly clear outdoor light illuminates Nell Regan’s poems. She offers her readers the sweet shock of immediacy: of the `glimmer of white butterflies, of the worn pieces of glass on the sea’s edge `muting clear to milky white, of the smell of fresh copybooks or empty tea-chests, of the `sweet rasp of sound. Preparing for Spring, is an accomplished book which will delight both those readers who have already admired her work in magazines and those to whom her voice is new.

~ Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin