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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... -
River Poems by Various
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations - the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the Yellow River of China - and have nourished modern cities from London... -
PN Review 272 by Michael Schmidt 9781800173712
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84The July-August 2023 issue. During 2023 PN Review is celebrating its jubilee. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries,... -
PN Review 271 Michael Schmidt 9781800173705
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84The May-June 2023 issue During 2023 PN Review is celebrating its jubilee. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries,... -
A History of Irish Women's Poetry by Ailbhe Darcy
Booksplease Price: $207.87A History of Irish Women's Poetry is a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women's poetry from earliest times to the present day. It reads Irish women's poetry through many prisms -... -
The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets by Gerald Dawe 9781108414197
Booksplease Price: $69.75The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets offers a fascinating introduction to Irish poetry from the seventeenth century to the present. Aimed primarily at lovers of poetry, it examines a wide range of... -
Collected Poems by Moya Cannon 9781800170322
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. In Collected Poems one of Ireland's best-loved contemporary poets brings together poems from her six principal collections, Oar (1990), The Parchment... -
PN Review 274 by Michael Schmidt 9781800173736
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84The November-December 2023 issue. During 2023 PN Review is celebrating its jubilee. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry,... -
The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov by Denise Levertov 9780811237543
RRP: $64.35Booksplease Price: $61.52How splendid and impressive to have a complete, clear, and unobstructed view of Denise Levertov. Covering more than six decades and including, chronologically, every poem she ever published,... -
The Shark Nursery by Mary O'Malley 9781800174146
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.45The poems of The Shark Nursery respond to a disturbed world. The experience of lockdown, of lives lived in an online reality, and of the animal world are the interlocking parts of the poems' world... -
Assessing the Achievement of J. M. Synge by Alexander G. Gonzalez 9780313297144
Booksplease Price: $147.83Though J. M. Synge is considered a major figure of Irish drama and an important canonical playwright, he is the subject of fewer and fewer books and conference sessions. In this volume, chapters by... -
New Selected Poems Denise Levertov 9781852246532
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $20.48This new, comprehensive selection of one of America's foremost modern poets draws on two dozen collections published over six decades. Edited by Paul A. Lacey, it replaces her earlier Bloodaxe... -
The Careless Seamstress by Tjawangwa Dema 9781496214126
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema's collection, The Careless Seamstress,... -
Ceiling of Sticks by Shane Book 9780803215580
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.07Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Shane Book's collection, Ceiling of Sticks, is a powerful and unflinching sort of documentary poetics. It bears elegiac witness to the effects of... -
Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect by Jane Clarke 9781399729611
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $29.60What does Ireland's nature poetry say about us as a people? How does it speak to us of our past, our inheritance, the values to which we aspire? What clues lie within its language that connect us to... -
Double Portrait by Brittany Perham 9780393354010
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $33.87Each poem in Brittany Perham's prize-winning collection links two portraits: lover and beloved, child and parent, citizen and country, spirit and body, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what... -
Blue If Only I Could Tell You by Richard Tillinghast 9781945680571
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27Blue If Only I Could Tell You is the thirteenth collection of poetry by Richard Tillinghast. Long awaited, the book is his first since Wayfaring Stranger came out in 2012. Melodious, lyrical, these... -
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me: 100 classic poems with commentary Brendan Kennelly 9781852244408
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me is the ultimate reader's companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from ?ve centuries with lively "companion" commentaries to go with and illuminate each... -
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.03WITH INTROUCTIONS BY EAVAN BOLAND AND MAUD ELLMANThe serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of... -
Ecological Exile: Spatial Injustice and Environmental Humanities Derek Gladwin (University of British Columbia, Canada) 9780367271114
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29Ecological Exile explores how contemporary literature, film, and media culture confront ecological crises through perspectives of spatial justice - a facet of social justice that looks at unjust... -
Dublin: A Writer's City by Christopher Morash
Booksplease Price: $42.88The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James Joyce's characters,... -
Gray Matter by Sara Michas-Martin 9780823257799
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.07Gray Matter navigates the slippage between waking and dreaming, thinking and being, reflecting the dynamic interplay of inner and outer worlds. The poems unravel the constructs of identity and the... -
The Craft of Poetry: A Primer in Verse by Lucy Newlyn
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.90A wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry-itself written entirely in verse"Reading this book, you get to know poetry from the inside, without the alienating or... -
Woven Shades of Green: An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature by Tim Wenzell 9781684481385
RRP: $130.65Booksplease Price: $107.33Woven Shades of Green is an annotated selection of literature by authors who focus on the natural world and the beauty of Ireland. It begins with the Irish monks and their largely anonymous nature... -
Gray Matter by Sara Michas-Martin 9780823257782
RRP: $72.15Booksplease Price: $64.94Gray Matter navigates the slippage between waking and dreaming, thinking and being, reflecting the dynamic interplay of inner and outer worlds. The poems unravel the constructs of identity and the... -
Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets by Horace 9780691119816
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of... -
May Swim by Katie Donovan 9781780376868
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85By turns lyrical and sardonic, this new collection from Katie Donovan is characteristically watery - candid and uncompromising in its refusal to inhabit the safer reaches of the shore. Themes of... -
The World After Alice Lauren Aliza Green 9781405964005
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25A Poignant Debut Novel from Lauren Aliza Green - Longlisted for the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature AwardFor fans of Anne Tyler and Claire Lombardo, this deeply moving, sharply written... -
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter 9780393292497
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $196.50A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly... -
Woven Shades of Green: An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature by Tim Wenzell
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.74Woven Shades of Green is an annotated selection of literature by authors who focus on the natural world and the beauty of Ireland. It begins with the Irish monks and their largely anonymous nature... -
Metabolics - Poems Jessica E. Johnson 9781946724571
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $25.58In this debut poetry collection, a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navigating identities, impulses, and relationships that are... -
In Country by Hugh Martin 9781942683704
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Hugh Martin's second full-length poetry collection moves within and among history to broaden and complicate our understanding of war. These poems push beyond tidy generalizations and easy moralizing... -
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $27.96America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for...