"Lost Republics will cement Moore’s reputation as one of the better recently emerging Irish poets, one whose voice is distinctive, contemplative and able to draw on and create from the tradition of Mandlestam and Akhmatova, whose stylistic echoes can be seen in many of the poems" (Read more)
- Nigel McLoughlin in Iota, issue 85
"ALAN JUDE MOORE is a young poet from Dublin whose experience of living in Moscow provides the subject matter for his award-winning first collection, Black State Cars , and for this, his second collection, Lost Republics . The social aftermath of the Soviet era is the collection’s thematic undercurrent and it is captured with pathos and lyrical detachment. In Fine Art (at the Pushkin Museum), “swastikas on the street” are contrasted with “one of Degas’ dancers” adjusting “the strap across her shoulder blade”. (Read more)
- Paul Perry in The Irish Times
"His superb second collection finds Moore’s distinctive voice, established in 2004’s Black State Cars, resonating with a new clarity and confidence. Influenced by the neo-modernist tendency but not necessarily of it, Moore avoids the languid, lyrical tonalities striven for and sometimes reached by the majority of his contemporaries. Yet his work could by no means be described as prosaic. His is a robust, sinewy music that once adjusted to has a strangely entrancing charm." (Read more)
- Billy Ramsell in The Stinging Fly
"What is necessary is to seek new forms and new language to express new ideas and experience. Moore is doing so, and that is what makes Black State Cars an important and essential collection." (Read more)
- Michael S. Begnal in Poetry Ireland Review, issue 82.
"Like all true poets, Alan Jude Moore is galvanised into urgent poetic utterance by everything that strikes upon his highly tuned sensitivity. His is a precise, energetic, inclusive vision, married to an excellent sureness and spontaneity of voice. Black State Cars demonstrates both how devotedly and scrupulously Moore controls his profound emotions in the interests of authentic poetic expression, and his power in channelling those very emotions with an understanding and refinement that is both imposingly faithful and memorably elegiac." (Read more)
- Michael Wynne in The Stinging Fly
