Poetry

Eamon Grennan’s new collection shows once again his powers of close, patient, plainspoken observation. He reveals how any specific detail can glow with the truth of its own unrepeatable self.

2020 1st Edition Hardback

Poems and Writings of Stephen O'Reilly

Best known as a poet, Derek Mahon here gathers a further selection of recent prose pieces, autobiographical, critical and speculative, in a similar mode to his Red Sails, notably on cinema, revision, clouds, caravans and horizons.

This landmark work contains a remarkable selection of 560 of the thousands of songs and poems created during, and reflecting upon, the most extraordinary decade of Irelands history. 

Red Sails, a spirited collection of short essays, adds further critical and autobiographical material to Derek Mahon’s growing body of prose. 

Essays explore Hutchinson's interests in Irish and European history and politics, as well as his examinations of sexuality and the body, music, the aesthetics of memory, and the poetics of friendship.

2011 1st Edition Hardback

Readers will find many poems and songs that they know, some will be new to them and all guaranteed Irish, ranging from old, unhappy things to poems of love, rage and wild humour, blister-raising satire and devotion to country.

This new volume of essays provides a critical re-evaluation of Brian Coffey (1905-1995), a leading figure in Ireland’s post-Independence poetic avant garde.

2010 1st Edition Hardback

Expanded from its original Library of America compilation, this edition covers the full range of his work, from the early collections to very recent work, and includes a DVD of "Life Is Immense: Visiting Samuel Menashe", a film by Pamela Robertson-Pearce.

Used. 2009 UK Edtion. Paperback. In very good condition. Pages unmarked.

Derek Mahon’s rich new collection turns its wide-angled lens on a ‘dozy seaside town’ in County Cork, four fellow Ulster poets, a bicycle shop in Delhi and the volcanic origins of the Canary Islands, against the background of a ‘cascading world economy’.

2010 1st Edition Hardback

An illuminating, often disturbing insight into Derry's darkest day, Harrowing of the Heart attempts to capture the disbeief and heartbreak felt by a nation through the artistic responses of a few.

Writer, poet, lecturer, broadcaster and man-of-letters, John Jordan was a distinguished scholar-critic in the Dublin of his day, teaching English at University College Dublin and at the Memorial University of Newfoundland at St John’s.

In this work, the contributors explore how contemporary Irish poets, both male and female, give expression to what might be termed a reassessment of material experience.

This three volume set shows the growth, variety and achievement of Irish writing in the areas of prose, poetry, and drama in the 19th century.

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The Something in Particular is laconic, witty and assured.

His Skaldcrane’s Nest is divided into four sections — Pendulum, Places, Paraphernalia and People. The latter remembers encounters and friendships with, among others, Robert Lowell, John Berryman and Pablo Neruda.