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Merchant Prince by Thomas Mccarthy 9780856463754
Booksplease Price: €16.78In 'Merchant Prince' Thomas McCarthy presents two groups of poems, set largely in Cork, and a novella set in Italy, in the period from 1769 and 1831. They tell the story of Nathaniel Murphy: his... -
Collected Poems by Donald Justice 9780856463860
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.84Anthony Hecht described Donald Justice as 'among other things, the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens.' This memorial volume of his complete poetry testifies to his subtle and enduring brilliance. With... -
Dancers in Daylight: Poems 1995-2002 by Anthony Howell 9780856463648
Booksplease Price: €12.52In the title poem, set in Rome, a chance meeting with the dying Rudolf Nureyev strikes the poet, himself a dancer, as hallucinatory. Along with the poems prompted by his mother's death, it is one of... -
Letters to Ted by Daniel Weissbort 9780856463419
Booksplease Price: €11.65"Letters to Ted" is a remarkable collection of poems in memory of the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, with whom Daniel Weissbort struck up a friendship, both literary and personal, during their... -
Selected Poems 1940-1979: Odysseus Elytis by Odysseus Elytis 9780856463556
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45This representative selection from the work of one of modern Greece's most fascinating poets was made shortly after his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979. It is drawn from all periods... -
Last Geraldine Officer by Thomas McCarthy 9780856464218
Booksplease Price: €16.68The first part of Thomas McCarthy's book collects his recent short lyrics. Part Two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a... -
Selected Poems Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire 9780856463594
RRP: €14.22Booksplease Price: €10.63Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters, he is... -
Material by Ros Barber 9780856464102
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06Ros Barber's second book forms a meditation on human loss; it is a more personal and autobiographical collection than her first, described by Neil Rollinson as 'an honest, unflinching and hugely... -
The Lost Hare by Nina Bogin 9780856464454
Booksplease Price: €14.13The spare and subtle poems of Nina Bogin's third collection map personal territory - places of memory and love as much as of language and geography. An American writing in her adopted France, in the... -
Ostraca by Gabriel Levin 9780856463174
Booksplease Price: €10.12Gabriel Levin's second collection builds confidently on his highly praised first. In graceful, exacting lyrics, he addresses subjects wrested from a stark, natural world of 'fire and ash' desert... -
Selected Poems: Aldo Vianello by Aldo Vianello 9780856464133
Booksplease Price: €16.40This bilingual collection of Aldo Vianello's poems draws on early translations by Richard Burns from Vianello's "Time of a Flower" (1968), with new versions by Peter Jay and Linda Lappin of poems... -
Leaf-huts and Snow-houses: Selected Poems by Olav H. Hauge 9780856463570
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45This title is a Poetry Book Society recommended translation. In this generous selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, Robin Fulton displays the range, variety and distinctive qualities of... -
Poetry, Therapy and Emotional Life Diana Hedges 9781857758603
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €43.17Poetry, Therapy and Emotional Life explores the thoughts of poets, therapists and counsellors in relation to the human condition with a practical component on how poetry can be used in therapeutic... -
Selected Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
RRP: €115.42Booksplease Price: €107.91For critics like John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1892) was one of the great creative figures of the day, a painter and a poet of major stature. Yeats and the young Pound... -
Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page by Elena Alexander
Booksplease Price: €59.02The writings of six choreographers are assembled in this book and the leap they have taken to go from the medium of choreography into written text constitutes a form of translation. Some of the texts... -
W.B. Yeats and World Literature: The Subject of Poetry by Dr. Barry Sheils 9780367880071
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats's work in the light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils shows how reading Yeats enables a fuller understanding of the... -
Cricket, Literature and Culture: Symbolising the Nation, Destabilising Empire Anthony Bateman 9781138261969
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from... -
No Cherry Time by Jennie Feldman 9781910345818
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.69In its geographical sweep - from Israel / Palestine westward across Europe, then circling back to Greece - No Cherry Time reflects a personal tale of alienation, departure and quest. Fine-tuned to... -
Five Books Ana Blandiana 9781780375380
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism. Over the years, her poetry became symbolic of an ethical consciousness that refuses to be silenced... -
The Sun of Hereafter * Ebb of the Senses Ana Blandiana 9781780373843
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.28Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the... -
My Native Land A4: Patria Mia A4 Ana Blandiana 9781780371054
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €8.78Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before for the fall of Communism, and now her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the... -
Collected Poems Ken Smith 9781780374321
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.45Ken Smith (1938-2003) was a major voice in world poetry, his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets. His politically edgy, cuttingly colloquial, muscular poetry poetry...