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Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $15.74Frank O'Hara (1926-66) is among the most delightful and radical poets of the twentieth century. He is celebrated for his apparently unpremeditated poems, autobiographical and immediate ('any time,... -
In the Blue Pharmacy: Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations by Marianne Boruch 9781595340115
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.32Collected here are sixteen essays on poets and poetry, the writing life, and a host of fascinating topics that come into the wide range of Marianne Boruch's attention. She examines how the... -
Playing with Fire by Grevel Lindop
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.80Eavan Boland has praised Grevel Lindop's 'lyric voice that handles images well, that distinguishes - as few poets do - the erotic from the sexual, that moves language in and out of metaphor with... -
Wintering Out by Seamus Heaney 9780571101580
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense... -
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation by Greg Delanty 9780393342413
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $51.03Featuring 123 all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets-including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Richard Wilbur, and many others-"this brilliant... -
Collected Poems: 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich 9780393285116
RRP: $126.73Booksplease Price: $99.31Adrienne Rich whose poetry is "distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity" (The New York Times) was the singular voice of her generation. She brought... -
Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, 1603-1660: A Norton Critical Edition by John P. Rumrich 9780393979985
Booksplease Price: $48.96A time of political and social unrest in England, this period produced some of the greatest poetry in English. This volume includes the major poets-John Donne, Ben Jonson, George Herbert, John... -
Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination by Michaela Schrage-Fruh 9783319821658
Booksplease Price: $52.16This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination, in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research, with the aim to lay a groundwork for an... -
Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960: The Answering Voice by Florence Impens 9783319885674
Booksplease Price: $138.22This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960. Featuring detailed studies of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Eavan Boland,... -
Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960: The Answering Voice by Florence Impens 9783319682303
Booksplease Price: $195.00This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960. Featuring detailed studies of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Eavan Boland,... -
Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema Tony Tracy (NUI Galway, Ireland) 9781032306636
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $72.42This volume offers a unique exploration of how ageing masculinities are constructed and represented in contemporary international cinema.With chapters spanning a range of national cinemas, the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry by Jane Dowson 9780521197854
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $90.27This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry by Jane Dowson
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $44.69This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of... -
Mary Magdalen: Truth and Myth by Susan Haskins 9781845950040
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $27.01A dramatic, thought-provoking portrait of one of the most compelling figures in early Christianity which explores two thousand years of history, art, and literature to provide a close-up look at Mary... -
Black Roads: The Famine in Irish Literature by Robert Smart 9780990468646
Booksplease Price: $24.57Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the... -
Donegal Tarantella by Moya Cannon 9781784107871
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84This sixth collection by one of Carcanet's most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyric poems musing on history, on archaeology, geology and on the deep need of the human spirit to find... -
One Morning? by Rebecca Wolff 9781940696126
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.94"[Wolff's poems] are stylistic and tonal shapeshifters. Hip, contemplative, and dark and resistant to the hunky-dory, the New Agey, and the prescriptive, they're unnerving, funny, and occasionally... -
Call Waiting by David C. Ward 9781847772268
Booksplease Price: $24.41The first full-length poetry collection from art historian David C. Ward, Call Waiting combines wry meditations on twenty-first-century life, work and family with observation of America - its... -
Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature by Nicholas Taylor-Collins 9783319959238
Booksplease Price: $179.28This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a... -
Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad by Alice Oswald
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.86In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad-the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen-in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that... -
Robert Lowell and Irish Poetry by Philip Coleman 9781788745093
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $45.83This is the first book to provide comprehensive treatment of Robert Lowell's engagements with Irish poetry. Including original contributions by leading and emerging scholars from both sides of the... -
Gaudent Angeli by Mary O'Malley
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84What is time? Our understanding of it changes, between when the angels rejoiced at the incarnation to when Einstein and then Feynman reconceived it. In the strange, unregulated and disorienting world... -
Seeking a Country: Literary Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Irishwomen by Taura S. Napier 9780761819349
Booksplease Price: $120.16Although there are numerous published studies of Irish literature, and several women's autobiographies, none has combined these areas of study. Literary autobiographies of both women and men have... -
The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine by Joseph Parisi 9781566634687
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $40.93"The history of poetry and of Poetry in America are almost interchangeable, certainly inseparable," wrote A. R. Ammons. Founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry magazine established its reputation... -
Medea's Chorus: Myth and Women's Poetry Since 1950 by Veronica House 9781433120640
RRP: $130.94Booksplease Price: $116.67Women's mythic revision is a tradition at the heart of twentieth-century literature. Medea's Chorus explores post-WWII women's poetry that takes Greek mythology as its central topos. The book... -
Teaching Modern Irish Poetry Anna Teekell Hays 9781603297349
Booksplease Price: $65.33Modern Irish poetry beyond Yeats and HeaneyInterpreting modern Irish poetry within a network of national and cultural identities and in the context of economic and demographic changes of the past... -
PN Review 277 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174207
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84The May-June 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from... -
Midland: Poems by Kwame Dawes 9780821413562
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice... -
Strong As Death Is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel, A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.43These five late biblical books offer readers a range of pleasures not usually associated with the Bible. They are artful, entertaining literary works-innovative, even startling. Women often stand... -
The Sinner's Bell by 9781843516705
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $16.85Helen's expectations were far from starry-eyed, but married life with Frank in the late 1960s seemed bewilderingly joyless; from the honeymoon in a seedy Paddington hotel complete with dirty linen... -
Strong As Death Is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel, A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter 9780393243048
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $39.33These five late biblical books offer readers a range of pleasures not usually associated with the Bible. They are artful, entertaining literary works-innovative, even startling. Women often stand... -
Midland: Poems by Kwame Dawes 9780821413555
Booksplease Price: $58.27The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice... -
PN Review 279 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174221
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84The September-October 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and... -
PN Review 281 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174719
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84The January-February 2025 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and... -
PN Review 275 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174184
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84The January-February 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and... -
PN Review 278 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174214
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84The July-August 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews... -
World Over Water: Poems by Robert Gibb by Robert Gibb 9781557288363
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44In 1999, Robert Gibb published ""The Origins of Evening"", selected by Eavan Boland for W. W. Norton as that year's ""National Poetry Series"" selection. Nearly five years later, he published ""The... -
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation by Greg Delanty 9780393079012
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $49.06Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their fields to sermonizers looking to save your soul-the... -
Playing the Octopus by Mary O'Malley 9781784102807
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84Joint Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018. In Playing the Octopus, her eighth collection of poems, Mary O'Malley's sensitivity to the spirit of Ireland's west coast is as attuned as ever... -
Last Poems by Thomas Kinsella
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76Last Poems brings together the poems from Thomas Kinsella's five final Peppercanister pamphlets, originally collected as Late Poems (2013), along with a selection of new poems, fragments and revised...