“Leave Taking, whose title evokes the poet’s vagabond spirit and linguistic flight into the imagination, is full of vivid, charming vignettes. Paddy brings the eye and sensibility of a curious observer who is neither maudlin in his sentiment, nor clinical in his detachment. Rather, we feel the grace of empathy pervade his enquiries and leavenings of thought …”
- from the Introduction by Emily Cullen
“Paddy Donoghue’s poetry is thoroughly convincing and life-enhancing. The reader is drawn into a ‘sacred place’ where we confront day and night ‘inside and outside.’ This sublime language ticks over beautifully – it seduces and carries us along from poem to poem like ‘still water’ and in the end we are sad to stop at ‘Summers End’. Paddy’s poetry is not only at home in Donegal – its themes and sentiments belong to the curious wherever they might happen to come together.”
– Terry Mc Donagh, Poet and Writer
