The Peacock's Eye is the first collection of poetry from Sheila O'Hagan, the winner of the 1991 Patrick Kavanagh Award for 'an assured and memorable collection of imaginative range and lyrical intensity'.

"In line with Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things, The Peacock's Eye puts the faculty of vision back at the heart of 'the brighter fire' of the poetic venture. These mature and considered poems are bound together by a sophisticated aesthetic sense that goes well beyond what is usual in a first collection." Medbh McGuckian
 

About the Author

Sheila O'Hagan began writing poetry in 1984 while studying at Birkbeck College, London University. In 1988 she won the Goldsmith Award for Poetry, and in 1990 returned to live in Dublin. Since then she has three times been awarded prizes at Writers' Week in Listowel. In 1991 she won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for a First Manuscript of Poetry and in 1992 the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Award for New Irish Poet of the year. She has been widely published in Ireland, the UK, America, Canada and Australia. Her second collection, The Troubled House, was published in 1995 (Salmon).

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