Reprising the Aisling tradition through personal vision, dream, memory and historical re-imagining, John W. Sexton's Visions at Templeglantine presents the concept of the Celtic Triple Muse Goddess as a means to express a contemporary poetic.
More excitingly than any other poet presently writing in Ireland, Sexton thinks the world anew. His poems offer a unique, provocative adventure through a landscape surreal as a dream, lyrical and terrifying as a fairytale. Yet for all its absorbing forays into the visionary, his work remains anchored by a profound and often painful wisdom. Breathing the exotic into plainness, Sexton pushes back the flawed boundaries of ordinary life. He satisfies our desire for a world porous with imagination, potent with subconscious symbology readable on the surface of the quotidian like Braille.
- Grace Wells, Contrary Magazine
Charles Simic said, "All poets, if they are any good, tend to stand apart from their literary age. They either linger in the past, advance into some imaginary future, or live in some version of the present that is altogether of their own." What is remarkable about Sexton is that he does all three.
- Adam Wyeth, Southword
