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Hudson Letter by Derek Mahon 9780916390709
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $8.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390709Author Derek MahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 63Imprint -
New Selected Poems by Derek Mahon
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56New Selected Poems is a book of singular abundance and formal verve, featuring poems of rare vision and dramatic power by a consummate and resilient artist. Demonstrating the wide range of Derek... -
Derek Mahon: A Study of His Poetry by Christopher Steare 9781910996089
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996089Author Christopher SteareFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprin -
Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Never Leave the Dog Behind: Our love of dogs and mountains by Helen Mort
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.46'We live in a world populated by dog lovers, where many of us regard them as members of the family. We are fascinated by them: either anthropomorphising our pets or obsessing about the ways they... -
Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 9780571207152
RRP: $3.86Booksplease Price: $3.57In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins by Alannah Hopkin
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.00This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and... -
If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.93Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionWinner of the E. M. Forster Award Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted for the John... -
Soho Square: Bk. 6: New Writing from Ireland by Colm Toibin 9780747516125
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.18This work is dedicated to contemporary Irish writing, and consists of a mixture of poetry, prose and photography. The contributors include Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, John McGahern, Edna O'Brien,... -
Collected Poems by Tony Harrison 9780241974353
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry. His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness... -
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster 9780691234045
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.47A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to... -
Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.43In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
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RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.84In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Self into Song: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures by Carol Rumens 9781852247607
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $7.92In this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city... -
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave 9780192542021 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.82Palgrave's Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language is a national institution and probably the most famous poetry anthology ever compiled. This new edition,... -
Contemporary Irish Poetry by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56First 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... -
Shadows on our Skin Jennifer Johnston 9780747267911
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Derry in the 1970s: teenager Joe Logan is growing up in the teeth of the Troubles, having to cope with embittered parents, a brother who's been away and come back with money and a gun in his pocket,... -
New Selected Poems P. J. Kavanagh 9781847772527
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $12.38In his foreword to this book, Derek Mahon notes that P.J. Kavanagh's poems 'elude the obvious categories. He has never been one of a "school"'. A poet of rural England, yet of Irish ancestry,... -
Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-45 by Gerald Dawe
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.39In the first half of the 20th century, the men and women of Ireland experienced the brutal realities of a succession of wars - from the unrelenting casualties of WW1, to the domestic upheavals of the... -
The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland by Alexander Poots
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70Northern 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'... -
Lifesaving Poems Anthony Wilson 9781780371573
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15Inspired by a remark of Seamus Heaney, Lifesaving Poems began life as notebook, then a blog. How many poems, Heaney wondered, was it possible to recall responding to, over a lifetime? Was it ten, he... -
How to Read a Poem Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester, UK) 9781405151412
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $22.42Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal... -
New and Selected Poems by Samuel Menashe 9781852248406
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15Samuel Menashe's poetry has a mysterious simplicity, a spiritual intensity and a lingering emotional force. For over 50 years he practised his art of 'compression and crystallisation' (in Derek... -
Fortinbras at the Fishhouses George Szirtes 9781852248802
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $7.92In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $14.13This 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... -
Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems by Stephen Romer
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems gathers the work of some thirty years, taken from Stephen Romer's four previous collections, along with a substantial selection of new poems. The title is... -
The Perfect Stranger by P. J. Kavanagh 9781910463291
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and engaging, and ultimately deeply emotional, The Perfect... -
One Wide Expanse by Michael Longley 9781906359898
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $20.46One Wide Expanse is the first volume in The Poet's Chair series, which will publish the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998...