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The Slain Birds by Michael Longley
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48**WINNER OF THE 2022 FELTRINELLI INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE ** 'One of the most perfect poets alive. There is something in his work both ancient and modern. I read him as I might check the sky for... -
The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50*AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*'I can't bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching... -
Collected Poems by Michael Longley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Michael Longley has been called 'one of the finest lyric poets of our time'. In assembling the work of forty years, his Collected Poems displays a brilliantly sustained achievement whose depth,... -
The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley 9780916390952
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390952Author Michael LongleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Angel Hill by Michael Longley 9781911214083
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A Guardian / Herald Scotland Book of the YearWinner of the 2017 PEN Pinter prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Forward PrizeA remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been for nearly fifty years... -
The Slain Birds by Michael Longley 9781930630994
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630994Author Michael LongleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley 9781930630932
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630932Author Michael LongleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
One Wide Expanse by Michael Longley 9781906359898
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.86One 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... -
Ash Keys: New Selected Poems by Michael Longley 9781943667130
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943667130Author Michael LongleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint -
Louis MacNeice: Poems Selected by Michael Longley by Louis MacNeice
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the... -
Selected Poems by Robert Graves
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51An essential selection from the range and bulk of Robert Graves's poetry, edited by Ulster poet Michael Longley. This edition restores Graves to view as a major twentieth century poet, and... -
Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland by Richard Rankin Russell
Booksplease Price: £36.58Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal... -
80 at 80 Paul Durcan 9781787304840
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.07A new selection of Paul Durcan's finest poems, published in celebration of his 80th birthday'He has written immortal poems. I revere him' Michael LongleyFor fifty years the poet Paul Durcan has... -
If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Winner 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... -
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith 9780691144733
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the... -
Creativity in Its Contexts by Chris Morash 9781874675679
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.65Two poets, a playwright and a novelist - Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Frank McGuiness and Anita Desai - explore in these essays aspects of the imaginative process as each has experienced it: four... -
The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems Brendan Kennelly 9781852249045
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Brendan Kennelly was one of Ireland's most popular and prolific poets. Over five decades he wrote thousands of poems published in over 30 books of poetry, including three previous editions of... -
Contemporary Irish Poetry by Paul Muldoon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51First 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... -
Branch-lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry Lucy Newlyn 9781904634355
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09'The one hundred and forty poems he wrote in the last two years of his life are a miracle. I can think of no body of work in English that is more mysterious.' - Michael Longley. When Edward Thomas... -
Selected Poems by Louis MacNeice 9780571233816
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively... -
The World Unmade by Frank Ormsby 9781910820797
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.37In The World Unmade Frank Ormsby explores the poetic diversity of Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on the poetry of the Troubles. He draws on his own experience as editor of a literary... -
A Time to Speak by Helen Lewis 9780856408557
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.04'Helen Lewis survived the greatest nightmare ever dreamed by man. Her story is appalling, mesmerising, and one reads with increasing gratitude for her clarity, honesty and courage.' Ian McEwan ... -
Irish Pages: the Classic Heaney Issue by Chris Agee 9781739353742
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.94A hardback reprint of the classic Irish Pages issue on Seamus Heaney to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death on 30 August 2013. "So many people in Ireland and overseas read, admired, and... -
Pastorals by Peter McDonald 9781857547528
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £14.76Pastorals, Peter McDonald's third collection, is his first full-length book of poems in eight years. At its heart are poems that approach places, times, and states of mind 'part history and part... -
Sappho Through English Poetry by Sappho 9780856462733
Booksplease Price: £9.34The poetry of Sappho, who was born around 620 BC and lived on the Greek island of Lesbos, has inspired and fascinated readers and poets for two and a half thousand years. Today, as in antiquity, she... -
Selected Poems of Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of... -
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Jubilee Lines by Carol Ann Duffy 9780571277056 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.87To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each... -
Fireflies by Frank Ormsby 9781903039960
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £14.14Frank Ormsby's new collection travels among places strange and familiar: from the shaping memories of an upbringing in rural County Fermanagh, to a Belfast reinventing itself in a new century and the... -
Jubilee Lines by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each... -
Selected Poems by Edmund Blunden 9781784106874
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95To mark the centenary of the First World War, a Selected Poems of Edmund Blunden brings back into print the work of a major war poet and author of the classic memoir Undertones of War. Edmund Blunden... -
Off The Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and her friends across the country offer poems in praise of the magic of reading. In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy... -
Goat's Milk: New & Selected Poems by Frank Ormsby 9781780371252
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Introduced by Michael Longley, Goat's Milk is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Frank Ormsby, a central figure in the poetry of Northern Ireland for the past forty years. As well as a... -
The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland by Alexander Poots
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60Northern 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'... -
Sudden Thaw by Peggy O'Brien 9781843510413
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.14PEGGY O'BRIEN grew up in western Massachusetts, where she now lives with her husband. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After graduating from Mount Holyoke College, she moved... -
Because we could not dance at the wedding by Michael McKimm 9781905208494
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.38At its heart a collection of love poems, Because we could not dance at the wedding is about coming out, coming to terms and settling down.Through a series of vividly observed scenes - from single-... -
Martial Art by Brendan Kennelly 9781852246211
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Martial is alive and kicking in Brendan Kennelly's latter-day Dublin versions of the Spanish Roman poet. He is a satirist trying to define generosity, happiness and love, with scurrilous candour and... -
Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect by Jane Clarke 9781399729611
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.18What 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... -
Immortal Thoughts Christopher Neve 9780500298244
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as 'completely and utterly marvellous'. 'Painting ... exists and exults in... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £10.95This 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... -
The Nowhere Birds by Caitríona O'Reilly 9781852245603
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.70Caitriona 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...