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New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender by Stephen Spender
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Stephen Spender, along with his friends W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis, rose to prominence in the 1930s, writing powerfully of the fear and paranoia of a continent heading towards war... -
Contemporary Irish Poetry by Paul Muldoon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51First published in 1984, Paul Muldoon's The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish Poetry since the death of Yeats. Here the reader can explore substantial... -
Excess in Modern Irish Writing: Spirit and Surplus by Michael McAteer 9783030374129
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from... -
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Fathers An Anthology by L Guiness 9780701163501 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £1.25Ideal fathers, cruel fathers, imagined fathers, puffed-up with pride fathers, noble fathers, and humanly flawed fathers, loving fathers, exasperated fathers. Literature is full of these but nobody,... -
Excess in Modern Irish Writing: Spirit and Surplus by Michael McAteer 9783030374150
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from... -
The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland by Alexander Poots
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do you write about a place like this? THE STRANGERS'... -
Modernism at the Microphone by Melissa Dinsman 9781350028456
Booksplease Price: £40.79As the Second World War raged throughout Europe, modernist writers often became crucial voices in the propaganda efforts of both sides. Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary... -
Reading the Ruins: Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture by Leo Mellor 9781107009295
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions, the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to the Second World War, British... -
Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry by Peter MacKay 9781107660724
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.67The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of... -
And As I Rode by Granard Moat by Benedict Kiely 9780946640782
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.14Rescued from memory by Ireland's leading short-story writer and raconteur, this anthology weaves a rich tapestry of songs, ballads and poetry reaching across three centuries and drawn from the lanes... -
British Radio Drama by John Drakakis
Booksplease Price: £32.12There has been little serious attempt in Britain to deal critically and historically with the subject of radio drama. This volume of essays concentrates upon a small group of influential writers who... -
Dog Poems by Carmela Ciuraru
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15If you believe that a dog is man's - and woman's - best friend, this is the anthology for you: six hundred years of reflections on the virtues (and some of the vices) of canine kind. Within these... -
Yeats and Modern Poetry by Edna Longley 9781107009851
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £71.97Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats'... -
Stepping through Origins: Myth, Nature, Home, and Landscape in Irish Literature by Jefferson Holdridge 9780815637462
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £51.90Since the eighteenth century, landscape has played complex psychological and political roles in the narrative of Irishness, entailing questions of memory, family, home, exile, and forgiveness. In... -
Stepping through Origins: Myth, Nature, Home, and Landscape in Irish Literature by Jefferson Holdridge 9780815637325
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Since the eighteenth century, landscape has played complex psychological and political roles in the narrative of Irishness, entailing questions of memory, family, home, exile, and forgiveness. In... -
Face Forms in Life-Writing of the Interwar Years by Teresa Bruś 9783031368981
Booksplease Price: £111.03This book is an interdisciplinary study of the engagement with and representation of the face across literature, photography, and theatre. It looks at how the face is an active agent, closely... -
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Tell Me the Truth About Love by W. H. Auden 9780571202607 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.51Fifteen famous love poems and cabaret songs written in the 1930s by W. H. Auden, including 'Funeral Blues' as featured in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.Tell Me the Truth About Love gathers... -
As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This highly enjoyable anthology has been chosen by Edward Mendelson, whose knowledge of Auden's writings is unrivalled. As he says in his introduction, these 'lighter verses' (some of them previously... -
Anzac Sonata: New and Selected Poems by Jon Stallworthy 9780393304220
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.11This volume, Stallworthy's seventh collection, typifies the way in which his best work mingles a graphically personal element with a strong sense of responsibility. "The fullest, most representative... -
Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780061923067
Booksplease Price: £11.78"By definition, all living poets are excluded from this book. Myself seventy-nine years of age, I grieve still for many of these poets who were my friends. But knowledge, not pathos, is my... -
Poems (1930) by W. H. Auden
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Auden's electrifying, enigmatic and extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, and simply entitled Poems. For the second edition (1933) he omitted seven items and... -
Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland by Peter McDonald 9780198186878
Booksplease Price: £27.50Does Northern Ireland need 'identity'? Does it make sense to discuss politics and literature in such terms? And what does it mean to make a connection between poetry and violence? In this... -
Poetry & Posterity by Edna Longley 9781852244354
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.22Edna Longley's latest collection of critical essays marks a move back from Irish culture and politics to poetry itself as the critic's central concern. She considers how poets are read and received... -
Selected Poems of Stephen Spender by Stephen Spender
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he met, among others, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice,... -
Dylan Thomas John Goodby 9781789149326
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78This concise biography of Dylan Thomas incorporates the most recent research, challenging the legend of the dissolute bard to reveal a diligent, professional writer, author of some of the century's... -
Forgive the Language: Essays on Poets and Poetry by Katy Evans-Bush 9781908058324
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28"Splendidly various" TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Typewriters, plagiarism and the poetic line are just three of the subjects under the spotlight in this book of essays by much-loved literary blogger... -
Yeats and Modern Poetry by Edna Longley 9781107622333
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats'... -
Poetry in the Wars by Edna Longley 9780906427996
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.53In the two world wars – and throughout the Troubles in Northern Ireland – poets insisted on not serving any political or nationalist case. As the war poets were attacked for failing to write their... -
Because a Fire Was in My Head by Michael Morpurgo 9780571303113
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05A wonderful anthology of poems to set fire to the imagination.We only have to 'remember, remember the 5th of November' to see a dark night filled with fireworks and bonfires. In their many... -
Collected Poems: Peter McDonald Peter Mcdonald 9781847770981
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £14.28In the five volumes of poetry he has published since 1989, Peter McDonald explores an intimately known territory that becomes strange: pulled out of shape by history, made unfamiliar by distance,... -
Conversing Identities: Encounters Between British, Irish and Greek Poetry, 1922-1952 by Konstantina Georganta 9789042035638
Booksplease Price: £83.88Conversing Identities: Encounters Between British, Irish and Greek Poetry, 1922-1952 presents a panorama of cultures brought in dialogue through travel, immigration and translation set against the... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £10.95This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies - with their vast lists of poets summoned... -
Pastorals by Peter McDonald 9781857547528
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £14.67Pastorals, Peter McDonald's third collection, is his first full-length book of poems in eight years. At its heart are poems that approach places, times, and states of mind 'part history and part... -
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry by Matthew Campbell 9780521813013
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £60.76In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book,... -
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Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland by Edna Longley 9781852245146 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.62This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies - with their vast lists of poets summoned... -
Collected Longer Poems by W. H. Auden
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38First published in 1968, this companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems was compiled by W.H. Auden to bring together six of his longer poetic works, originally published between 1930 and 1947... -
Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition by Christina Hunt Mahony 9780312219017
Booksplease Price: £38.42An Introduction to Contemporary Irish Literature provides a thorough initiation into the works of a broad selection of living Irish writers. The collection treats the writings of a range of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry by Matthew Campbell
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book,... -
The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland by Edna Longley 9781852242176
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.50Edna Longley’s second collection of essays for Bloodaxe investigates the links between Irish literature (especially contemporary poetry), Irish culture and Irish politics. The Living Stream takes its... -
The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric by George F. Will 9780684848204
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Swatches From The Century's End ...I cannot deny my past to which my self is wed, the woven figure cannot undo its thread. Louis MacNeice, "Valediction" These words express a truth of conservatism...