“Mac Falls looks at the old masters as exemplars and indeed, the first thought I had when reading his work was that W. B. Yeats had found a suitable heir. Indeed Mac Falls, like Yeats, uses Gaelic on occasion and his work has a sonorousness that calls to mind poems like the ‘Lake Isle of Innisfree’ and ‘Cuchulain Comforted.’ Here the lyric is more porous to how the outside world impinges on the imagination in the very process of creation and the result is limpid and languorous. His sense of craftsmanship is immaculate . . . his syllables glisten with the inborn radiance of certain gemstones.”
—RAVI SHANKAR, Contemporary Poetry Review

“In an age of prosaic verse, he [Mac Falls] uses a more charged and resonant language . . . bardic.”
—RICHARD WILBUR, former U.S. Poet Laureate

“Seán Mac Falls is an authentic poet. His voice is his own, and his fusion of Gaelic and North American traditions is refreshingly unfashionable.”
—HAROLD BLOOM