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Pastoral Elegy in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry by Iain Twiddy 9781472523792
Booksplease Price: €48.54Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, Iain Twiddy reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon,... -
Reservoir Voices by Brendan Kennelly 9781852248369
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Much of Brendan Kennelly's poetry gives voice to others and otherness. Whether through masks or personae, dramatic monologues or riddles, his poems inhabit other lives, other beings and other ways of... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €13.03This 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... -
Now by Brendan Kennelly 9781852247492
RRP: €10.65Booksplease Price: €8.04Now is a fast and frenzied meditation on time, ageing, alienation and the pressures of living in the modern city. Each triplet in this book-length poetry sequence addresses the question: What is... -
The Nowhere Birds by Caitríona O'Reilly 9781852245603
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €11.54Caitriona O'Reilly's first collection The Nowhere Birds won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and introduced a new writer of remarkable maturity and narrative power. The book's holding pattern is... -
Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Neil Astley 9781780373768
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.06Land of Three Rivers is a celebration of North-East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings... -
Guff Brendan Kennelly 9781852249830
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €8.78Brendan Kennelly's Guff is both mouthpiece and mouthed off, Devil's advocate and self critic, everyman and every writer consumed by self-doubt and self-questioning. The book of Guff is about words... -
Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them by Paula Meehan 9781906359911
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €18.52Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them is the third volume in UCD Press's The Poet's Chair series, publishing the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry... -
The Darkness of Snow Frank Ormsby 9781780373669
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €8.78The Darkness of Snow is Frank Ormsby's most varied and versatile collection to date. It includes three substantial sets of poems whose themes are refreshingly and sometimes painfully new. One is a... -
The Rain Barrel Frank Ormsby 9781780374925
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.28Frank Ormsby's seventh collection of poems reflects not only the beauty of the Irish landscape and the sensuous and aesthetic impact of the small farms among which he grew up, but also the continuing... -
Familiar Strangers: New & Selected Poems 1960-2004 Brendan Kennelly 9781852246631
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €23.80Familiar Strangers is Brendan Kennelly's own selection from over 20 poetry books written over five decades. This landmark volume replaces his earlier selections A Time for Voices, Breathing Spaces... -
The Pleasure Ground: Poems 1952-2012 Richard Murphy 9781852249861
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.28Richard Murphy (1927-2018) was one of Ireland's most distinguished poets, known particularly for poems drawing on the people and history of the west of Ireland with classical rigour and 'unvarnished'... -
Tongues of Fire by Sean Hewitt
RRP: €15.47Booksplease Price: €9.10** WINNER OF THE LAUREL PRIZE 2021 ****A SPECTATOR AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020****SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020****SHORTLISTED... -
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry by Wes Davis 9780674072220
RRP: €40.40Booksplease Price: €34.95Never 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...