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Maurice Riordan: The Holy Land [2007] paperback Condition:New She forms a growing attachmentAt the heart of Maurice Riordan's third collection is a sequence of eighteen dramatic idylls set in rural Cork in the 1950s, in which the subdued microcosm of farm and smallholding of boundary, townland and parish is defined through the individual voices of the poet's father and assorted friends, farmhands and neighbours (Moss, Dan Jo, Davey Divine, the Bo'son, Uncle Tom the Buck, the Gully). The settings of these loosely contiguous fragments almost