Dolmen Hill

“Dolmen Hill is the second collection of Westmeath man, John Ennis, and includes ‘Orpheus’, which won the open poetry competition at Listowel last year, also ‘Corbetstown’ a prizewinner at Listowel in 1976. ‘Orpheus’ runs to 48 pages and is brilliant literary entertainment: ‘Rilke! Say die no more! Onward Poesy’s Phagocytes! / Remember the limestone lips softly sonneting shut. / Poets hitch themselves to Orpheus as fervently as patients / Plugging in to a Chrome Kidney Machine. After you, / Rainer Marie . . .”

Kevin Faller, The Irish Independent, 18 April 1978.

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