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Oxford Poets Anthology: 2000 by Bernard O'Donoghue 9781903039038
RRP: €25.14Booksplease Price: €16.70The first "Oxford Poets" anthology introduces the work of six writers whose poems extend the rich tradition of the Oxford list, now continuing to develop through Carcanet in association with the... -
Choir Outing by Nigel Forde 9781903039977
Booksplease Price: €14.89Nigel Forde's poems explore those feelings, memories and landscapes, glimpsed and momentary, that haunt us with an insistent need to be questioned or commemorated. In monologues and elegies,... -
Yellow Studio by Stephen Romer 9781903039854
Booksplease Price: €15.06"Yellow Studio", Stephen Romer's fourth book of poems, is furnished with the poems of that middle of the life where amorous bewilderment, rueful satire and the bitter-sweet memory conduct their... -
Fathom by Jenny Lewis 9781903039816
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €9.11The glowing, painterly poems of Jenny Lewis' first collection take soundings in the depths: of the layers of the pasts that create a life, of the sources of self and creativity, of the structures... -
The Ship of Birth by Greg Delanty 9781903039632
Booksplease Price: €12.73The Ship of Birth records a father's responses in the days immediately before and after a child is born. Just as material significant to the dead is placed in a Ship of Death, so this Ship of Birth... -
Manganese by Robert Saxton 9781903039717
RRP: €22.74Booksplease Price: €15.40Manganese starts with a murder in China in the age of Confucius and ends with a sestina about a difficult family Christmas in front of the television. Plain-spoken narrative is juxtaposed with an... -
Crossing the Carpathians Carmen Bugan 9781903039687
Booksplease Price: €16.76Crossing the Carpathians is a collection of poems about exile, family, and the survival of love. Carmen Bugan was born in Romania, and her book has its origins in her experiences during the 1980s, as... -
Oxford Poets Anthology: 2004 by Bernard O'Donoghue 9781903039663
Booksplease Price: €16.93This anthology follows the OxfordPoets anthologies of 2000, 2001 and 2002. It introduces a number of new poets who are beginning to make their way. The collection celebrates the diversity of the... -
Night Tree by Jane Draycott 9781903039724
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.74This collection travels many paths and by-ways, beside some of which lie burning cars, or a young man speechless on a forest floor, or girls lost far from home. And there is a lighthouse...Travellers... -
Tigers at Awhitu by Sarah Broom 9781903039991
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €9.11Sarah Broom's poetry profoundly engages the landscape of her native New Zealand. Experienced as both nurturing and menacing, tender and indifferent, it is the context within which other terrains are... -
Bugs by Anthony Dunn 9781903039953
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €9.11Both heartening and heartbreaking, this collection of poems tells the stories of life of all sizesfrom microscopic parasitic worms to the lives of massive planets. Full of characters facing the guilt... -
Fireflies by Frank Ormsby 9781903039960
RRP: €26.34Booksplease Price: €16.97Frank 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... -
Flying Fish by Antony Dunn 9781903039564
Booksplease Price: €9.49Antony Dunn's second collection of poems glimpses "the other life" of things caught out of their own element. The poems in "Flying Fish" wrestle with our fascination with the sea, our helplessness in... -
Over by Jane Draycott 9781903039922
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €9.11"Over", Jane Draycott's third book, takes its title from a sequence of twenty-six poems based on the international phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta - In these and other pieces,... -
The Estate by Sasha Dugdale 9781903039809
Booksplease Price: €15.44Sasha Dugdale's poems explore the mysterious solitudes of individual lives with tender, unsparing lucidity. The book opens with a sequence written at the Pushkin family estate. The great Russian... -
Oxford Poets: An Anthology: 2010 by David Constantine 9781903039984
RRP: €26.34Booksplease Price: €17.05The first OxfordPoets anthology established as an editorial principal 'no programme beyond a desire to represent the best'. The series has unfolded as a record of contemporary poetry, and this sixth... -
Red House by Sasha Dugdale
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €9.11In "Red House", her third collection, Sasha Dugdale evokes the ghosts and presences that flit about on the margins of our lives. She finds them at the edge of towns where superstores and allotments... -
Map of the Territory by Nigel Forde 9781903039694
Booksplease Price: €16.86Nigel Forde is fascinated by things in the process of change: music, the momentary epiphany, the precarious balance of twilight rather than night or day. The poems, written over a period of years,... -
Vineyard Above the Sea Charles Tomlinson 9781903039014
Booksplease Price: €12.90The title poem of this volume describes the vineyards of an area of Italy which has been the subject of many of Tomlinson's poems since his earliest work. In the Cinque Terre, vines are cultivated... -
Oxford Poets Anthology: 2001 by Bernard O'Donoghue 9781903039526
RRP: €26.34Booksplease Price: €17.15"Oxford'Poets' 2001", the second Oxford'Poets' anthology, fulfils two functions. It reminds readers of some of the leading new and older figures on the Oxford list, including substantial extracts... -
Ivor Gurney: Selected Poems by Ivor Gurney 9780192880659
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.13Recognized as one of the most promising poets and composers of his time, Ivor Gurney's full creative gifts never reached fruition. Gurney trained as a composer with Herbert Howells at the Royal... -
New and Selected Poems: Chris Wallace-Crabbe by Chris Wallace-Crabbe 9781906188078
RRP: €17.94Booksplease Price: €13.88This book distils an adult lifetime into the intense magic of poetry. Wallace-Crabbe is a nature poet in the broadest possible sense: his poems, ranging widely in tone and subject-matter, seek above... -
Ethiopia Boy by Chris Beckett
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €9.11Chris Beckett grew up in 1960s Ethiopia, a country he describes as a 'barefoot empire, home of black-maned lions ...old priests decked out like butterflies and blazing young singers of Ethio-jazz'... -
Aviary of Small Birds by Karen McCarthy Woolf 9781906188146
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €9.11An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the... -
Oxford Poets: An Anthology: 2013 by Iain Galbraith 9781906188108
RRP: €26.34Booksplease Price: €17.94This anthology brings together the work of nineteen poets from a dozen different countries, with translations from at least seven languages, to provide a rich mix of contemporary voices. Here you can... -
Taking Mesopotamia by Jenny Lewis 9781906188115
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €9.11Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewis's search for her lost father - the young South Wales Borderer who fought in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. Through... -
To the War Poets Johen Greening 9781906188085
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €9.11In To the War Poets John Greening sends dispatches across the decades. In a sequence of verse letters he addresses the poets of the First World War directly, making connections yet always aware of... -
Occupant by Jane Draycott
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.13Following the success of her T. S. Eliot Prize-nominated Over and award-winning translation of the medieval Pearl, Jane Draycott returns with her fourth collection of poems, The Occupant. With a... -
In Mortal Memory by Andrew McNeillie 9781847770844
Booksplease Price: €14.86"In Mortal Memory" is a collection of lyric poems, celebratory if often melancholy, both elegiac and ironic. Affirming that life is 'all becoming' McNeillie mourns what that means in terms of loss... -
Slower by Andrew McNeillie 9781857548280
Booksplease Price: €16.98"Slower", Andrew McNeillie's third collection, meditates on personal and natural history, nation states and mental states, violence, religion and poetry. It treats too of personal bereavement, and of... -
Fifty Fifty: Carcanet's Jubilee in Letters by Robyn Marsack 9781784108786
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.92A Book of the Year 2019 in The Morning Star. This is a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a small, ambitious press over a period of radical transformation in publishing. Each of Carcanet's... -
Moscow Tales by Helen Constantine 9780199559893
RRP: €16.19Booksplease Price: €13.04Presenting stories which represent each layer of the city of Moscow, from the centre of power to the outer rings of desolate estates and tumbledown shacks, this fascinating collection offers a lively...