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Collected Poems Ciaran Carson by Ciaran Carson 9781930630451
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The Tain by Ciaran Carson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.72The Tain Bo Cualinge, centrepiece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's great epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb... -
The Pen Friend by Ciaran Carson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.75'I write to try to see you as you were, or what you have become. You left no forwarding address: that was part of your intention. For when we wrote those letters to each other all those years ago, we... -
The Midnight Court by Ciaran Carson 9781930630253
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630253Author Ciaran CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 63Imprint -
Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson 9780916390402
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £7.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390402Author Ciaran CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint -
The Ballad of HMS Belfast by Ciaran Carson 9781447271239
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95This compendium, made from Ciaran Carson's previous collections, reveals one of the most remarkable and sustained tours de force in contemporary poetry: the poet's reimaginign of his native city of... -
From There to Here: Selected Poems and Translations by Ciaran Carson
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630888Author Ciaran CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Ciaran Carson: Space, Place, Writing by Neal Alexander
Booksplease Price: £45.29An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Ciaran Carson is one of the most challenging and inventive of contemporary Irish... -
Howdie-Skelp by Paul Muldoon 9780571365784
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEKThe hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph).'Very few poets, living or... -
Limits of Orality and Textuality in Ciaran Carson's Poetry by Grzegorz Czemiel 9783631647455
RRP: £54.25Booksplease Price: £48.73Following the evolution of Ciaran Carson's work, this book aims to trace the tension between orality and textuality, which can be discerned in the poetry of the Northern-Irish writer. Assuming these... -
A Study Guide for Ciaran Carson's the War Correspondent by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375394277
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375394277Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 42I -
Last Night's Fun: A Book about Irish Traditional Music by Ciaran Carson 9780865475311
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £11.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865475311Author Ciaran CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Terrorism and Modern Literature: From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson by Alex Houen 9780198187714
Booksplease Price: £56.67Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such... -
Terrorism and Modern Literature: From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson by Alex Houen 9780198187707
Booksplease Price: £80.61Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such... -
The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion by Tara Guissin-Stubbs 9783030532413
Booksplease Price: £91.34The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara... -
The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion by Tara Guissin-Stubbs 9783030532444
Booksplease Price: £61.04The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara... -
Hiberno-English, Ulster Scots and Belfast Banter: Ciaran Carson’s Translations of Dante and Rimbaud by Eamon Maher 9781803740706
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.45Ciaran Carson viewed translation as integral to his oeuvre. He imbues his version of Dante’s acclaimed Inferno with modern socio-political concerns, placing it in a partly Irish context, beyond any... -
Translation and Stylistic Variation: Dialect and Heteroglossia in Northern Irish Poetic Translation Helen Gibson 9781032217130
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Translation and Stylistic Variation: Dialect and Heteroglossia in Northern Irish Poetic Translation considers the ways in which translators use stylistic variation, analysing the works of three... -
Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tennyson had a life-long interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem 'Morte d'Arthur' he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, written in two periods... -
Essays on James Clarence Mangan: The Man in the Cloak by Sinead Sturgeon 9781137273376
Booksplease Price: £46.28This is the first collection of essays to focus on the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of... -
Outlaws and Spies: Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature by Conor McCarthy
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60By reading two bodies of literature not normally read together the outlaw literature and espionage literature Conor McCarthy shows how these genres represent and critique the longstanding use of... -
Father's Father's Father Dane Holt 9781800174689
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Dane Holt's debut collection confronts class, grief and the self-dramatising of masculinity in the aftermath of tragedy.About the AuthorDane Holt holds a PhD from Queen's University Belfast. His... -
Poetry and Translation in Northern Ireland: Dislocations in Contemporary Writing by Rui Carvalho Homem 9780230221161
Booksplease Price: £46.28This new study offers a critical reading of the poetry and translations of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. It demonstrates that their 'original' verse as... -
New and Selected Poems by Ian Duhig
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Ian Duhig's effortlessly fascinating and endlessly quotable verse has had a shaping influence on UK poetry for more than thirty years. This eclectic gathering of Duhig's best work draws on material... -
Outlaws and Spies: Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature by Director of Philanthropy Conor McCarthy
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.32Outlawry and espionage would seem to be quite different phenomena, rarely discussed together, but this book shows that they have something in common - both involve exclusion from law. Challenging... -
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... -
Contemporary British Poetry and the City by Peter Barry 9780719055942
Booksplease Price: £23.54Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that... -
August, September, October by Craig Morgan Teicher 9781968507008
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88August, September, October is a deep, vulnerable meditation on fatherhood, time passing, and survival in a world reshaped by crisis. In two long, diaristic poems and a constellation of lyrical... -
A Quickening Star by Sue Morgan 9781905233540
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.35The poems in A Quickening Star are brought into increasingly vivid focus line-by-line, each line like a frame in a well-crafted film opening sequence. This loaded narrative quality of Sue Morgan's... -
Postcolonial Overtures: The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry by Julia C. Obert 9780815634003
Booksplease Price: £36.78Postcolonial Overtures explores the importance of sound in contemporary Northern Irish writing, focusing on the work of three canonical poets: Ciaran Carson, Derek Mahon, and Paul Muldoon. Obert... -
August, September, October by Craig Morgan Teicher 9781968507022
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45August, September, October is a deep, touching meditation on fatherhood, time passing, and survival in a world reshaped by crisis. In two long, diaristic poems and a constellation of lyrical... -
Contemporary Literary Landscapes: The Poetics of Experience Daniel Weston 9780367140533
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers' accounts. This monograph employs a... -
The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics by Maurice Riordan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.37In a series of timeless and modern-day renditions, Maurice Riordan brilliantly introduces us to the poems that founded Ireland's rich literature. Memorable and accessible, these early lyrics are... -
Negotiations: Poems in their Contexts Neil Corcoran 9781836245056
Booksplease Price: £29.41This book, by the eminent poetry critic Neil Corcoran, examines the ways in which the work of significant modern Irish, British and American poets interacts with or 'negotiates' different contexts -... -
Poetics of the Local: Globalization, Place, and Contemporary Irish Poetry by Shirley Lau Wong 9781438493817
Booksplease Price: £26.07Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland's transforming global identity.Winner of the 2023 Robert Rhodes Prize for... -
The Crossings of Art in Ireland by Eamon Maher 9783034309837
RRP: £46.10Booksplease Price: £41.70The essays in this volume explore interartistic connections in Irish literature, drama, film and the visual arts. Within modern and postmodern culture, innovation is often driven by surprising... -
States of War since 9/11: Terrorism, Sovereignty and the War on Terror by Alex Houen
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks... -
Redefinitions of Irish Identity: A Postnationalist Approach by Helen Chambers 9783039115587
RRP: £51.40Booksplease Price: £46.27Recently, the issue of postnationalism has encouraged intense debate, which has been reflected in the publication of numerous books and articles in various fields of study, including politics,... -
Poetics of the Local: Globalization, Place, and Contemporary Irish Poetry by Shirley Lau Wong 9781438493824
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland's transforming global identity.Winner of the 2023 Robert Rhodes Prize for... -
bandit country by James Conor Patterson 9781529092776
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.71SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 T.S. ELIOT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZEbandit country, the much-anticipated debut collection from James Conor Patterson,...