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Thinking with Trees by Jason Allen-Paisant 9781800171138
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.85Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023. Winner of the Poetry Category OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022. An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. A White Review Book... -
The Gaelic Garden of the Dead MacGillivray 9781780374437
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.28The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is three Books of the Dead bound as one. This trilogy comprises an alphabet of trees, ten dream pattern poems and thirty-five death sonnets deconstructed to Mary Queen... -
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird Tim Birkhead 9781408830543
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.89What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going... -
Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics by Vidyan Ravinthiran 9780231202749
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €93.43Writing about poetry follows models provided either by academic scholarship or literary journalism, each with its pitfalls. The former distances the reader from the poem and effaces the critic's... -
Pilgrim Bell: Shortlisted for the 2022 Forward Prize Kaveh Akbar 9781784743536
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26*AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021***Selected as one of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021**'Profound and singular, smart and sad and funny. . . We need Pilgrim Bell.' TOMMY ORANGEWith formal... -
Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics by Vidyan Ravinthiran
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47Writing about poetry follows models provided either by academic scholarship or literary journalism, each with its pitfalls. The former distances the reader from the poem and effaces the critic's... -
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry by Wes Davis 9780674072220
RRP: €40.40Booksplease Price: €35.11Never before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. Collected here is a comprehensive representation... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €23.13"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those... -
The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin by Geoffrey Hill 9780198829522
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €32.24At his death in 2016, Geoffrey Hill left behind The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, his last work, a sequence of more than 270 poems, to be published posthumously as his final statement... -
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery 9781857549065
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.03"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. The long title poem, a meditation on Parmigianino's famous... -
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €11.28Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New YorkerAn extraordinary debut from a young... -
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster 9780691234045
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.98A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to... -
Soren Kierkegaard: A Biography by Joakim Garff 9780691127880
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €41.83"The day will come when not only my writings, but precisely my life--the intriguing secret of all the machinery--will be studied and studied." Soren Kierkegaard's remarkable combination of genius and... -
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH... -
The Selected Letters of John Berryman by John Berryman
RRP: €40.40Booksplease Price: €35.11A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind selection of Berryman's correspondence with friends, loved ones, writers, and editors, showcasing the turbulent, fascinating life and mind of one of America's major... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1: 1913-1926 by Walter Benjamin 9780674013551
RRP: €34.45Booksplease Price: €25.72Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press...