"New in The Poet's Circuits are some of the forepieces and afterpieces he wrote to
bracket the circuits. Most significant is the first forepiece, a long autobiographical
narrative about youthful self-discovery, artistic maturation, ... The Poet's Circuit
was well received by yet another generation of critics and readers coming freshly
to Colum's work, ... turn-of-the-century Ireland never left Colum, in the same way
that Joyce's Dub ..."