John Montague : The Rough Field (CD)

John Montague has published twelve volumes of verse. In 1998 he was the first to be appointed to the prestigious Ireland Chair of Poetry. One of his poems, 'The Rough Field', begun in 1960, was performed live in the Round House, Chalk Farm, London, in July 1973. The performance was recorded by Claddagh Records and the readers were John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Benedict Kiely, Tom MacGurk and Patrick Magee. Incidental music was played by The Chieftains. The poem is an epic investigating the wars between the chieftains of Ulster and the Elizabethan planters in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and it explores the lives and landscapes of their descendants.

Track Listing:
1. Introduction - John Montague
2. Home Again - John Montague
3. The Leaping Fire - John Montague
4. The Bread God - John Montague
5. A Severed Head - John Montague
6. The Fault - John Montague
7. A Good Night - John Montague