Jill M. O'Mahony is a lecturer in the Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. Dr Mìcheàl hAodha is based in the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he lectures in the Department of History, School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication. "One travels hopefully through The Willow's Whisper. At the heart of this spirited collection rests the perennial wisdom that foreign is native, and native foreign." Dr Peter Van de Kamp, Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland "A marvellous introduction to the contemporary poetry of the North American Indian, and an inspired get-together with Irish poets writing in Irish so different in their origins, so similar in their humor and sadness." Eoghan Mac Aogàin, Linguistics Institute of Ireland "This thought provoking and imaginative anthology brings poems and poets from diverse sociolinguistic and cultural traditions together into dialogue. Central yet marginalized within their respective discourses, the genus of this anthology is to change the dominant focus.

By pairing these 'non-canonical' texts, this anthology opens new vistas, and makes new connections amplifying human and cultural concerns all too often lost in the official Anglo-American literary and cultural canon." Dr Brian Conchubhair, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.