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New Selected Poems of Tom Paulin by Tom Paulin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.43Since his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, Tom Paulin has been an unmissable writer on the contemporary poetry scene. This... -
Love's Bonfire by Tom Paulin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tom Paulin's first collection since The Road to Inver in 2004, Love's Bonfire sets poems about early life and marriage beside up-to-the minute and minutely registered perceptions of post-settlement... -
Namanlagh Tom Paulin 9780571395842
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEI guess I must have been in two mindsabout the new dayas the daylight godsbegan to march in straight linesgoing I don't know where.from 'The Spare Room'In his... -
Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent by Tom Paulin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Comprised of pieces spanning five centuries, Crusoe's Secret explores the culture of English dissent, whether through canonical works - Paradise Lost, Robinson Crusoe, Clarissa - or moving between... -
D. H. Lawrence by Tom Paulin 9780571234912
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31David Herbert Lawrence was born in Nottinghamshire in 1885. Predominantly remembered as a novelist, Lawrence began writing poetry when he was nineteen and published his first pieces in 1909 in the... -
The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer by Tom Paulin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical... -
The Anchorage Bernard O'Donoghue 9780571387939
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Poetry of how we shape what is lost or past, and how it shapes us.Bernard O'Donoghue investigates the idea of anchorage as a place we build for ourselves out of memory and story. The Ireland of his... -
Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn: Intertextuality in the work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian by Stephanie Schwerter 9781349444632
Booksplease Price: £53.63Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their... -
Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn: Intertextuality in the work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian by Stephanie Schwerter 9781137271716
Booksplease Price: £46.28Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their... -
The Plain Speaker: The Key Essays by William Hazlitt 9780631210566
RRP: £109.95Booksplease Price: £100.01In this selection from the two-volume Plain Speaker, Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address some of the most important critical issues both in romantic studies today and... -
The Plain Speaker: The Key Essays William Hazlitt 9780631210573
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81In this selection from the two-volume Plain Speaker, Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address some of the most important critical issues both in romantic studies today and... -
Medea (Northern Broadsides version) by Euripides
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Betrayed by a husband she sacrificed everything for, Medea unleashes a horrific vengeance on her enemies, by murdering her own children. Featuring one of the most powerful female roles in the... -
Soho Square: Bk. 6: New Writing from Ireland by Colm Toibin 9780747516125
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.54This 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,... -
Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays by Uttara Natarajan
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44The rediscovery and restitution of William Hazlitt as a canonical Romantic author has been among the latest and most significant developments in present-day Romantic studies. This volume, a... -
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... -
The Hellenism and Reconciliation in Ireland from Yeats to Field Day by Nathan Wallace 9781782050681
Booksplease Price: £45.26Largely inspired by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the 1990s, scholars from a range of disciplines have produced numerous books and conferences on the topic of... -
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster 9780691234045
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.99A 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... -
Hughie O'Donoghue by Jo Baring 9781848226265
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £43.03Hughie O'Donoghue (b. 1953) explores themes of universal human experience, ideas of truth and the relationship between memory and identity. Often standing apart from his contemporaries in the scale... -
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... -
Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965: Moments of Danger Richard Kirkland 9780582238848
Booksplease Price: £54.79This study considers writing within the cultural context of Northern Ireland and discusses how writing creates a sense of community, and the different forms this takes when written from loyalist or... -
Futura-isms by Futura
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.14A collection of fascinating quotations from the legendary artist and graffiti pioneerFutura is a living legend-a world-renowned painter, designer, and photographer who was a pioneer of graffiti art... -
The Fight and Other Writings by William Hazlitt 9780140436136
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Hazlitt is one of the greatest masters of English prose style and this new selection demonstrates the variety and richness of his writing. The volume includes classic pieces of drama and literature... -
Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy 9780571328758
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber.At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted... -
Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 by David Norbrook 9780521785693
Booksplease Price: £43.64'[Norbrook's] marvellously original, densely researched study of the English republican imagination is an attempt to retrieve forgotten figures like the regicide Henry Marten, as well as to extend... -
Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society by Edward W. Said
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78______________ 'A beautifully poised series of dialogues about literature, music and politics, and they're a testimony to the enormous gifts and courage of both men' - Tom Paulin, Guardian 'A... -
Rude Britannia by Mina Gorji 9780415382762
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Media commentators have noted a rising public tolerance to the use of rude or offensive words in modern English. John Lydon's obscene outburst on 'I'm a Celebrity...' only provoked a handful of... -
Poetry from 1660 to 1780: Civil War, Restoration, Revolution by Robert DeMaria 9780631229810
RRP: £79.50Booksplease Price: £69.87Poetry from 1660-1789 offers readers authoritative texts of the central works of the age from a wide range of poets, including Milton, Dryden, Wilmot, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Gray, Collins and... -
The Revelations by Alex Preston
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02A group of young people are searching for meaning in a dark and directionless world. The Course, a religious movement led by a charismatic priest, seems at first to offer everything the friends have... -
On the Uses of History in Recent Irish Writing Bernhard Klein 9780719075858
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This book offers a critical reassessment of the uses of history in contemporary Irish literature and culture. It argues that in much recent Irish writing, history is approached not as the proverbial... -
The Romantic Poets by Uttara Natarajan 9780631229315
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £32.32This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets. Guides readers through the wealth of... -
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... -
Poetry & Posterity by Edna Longley 9781852244354
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.22Edna Longley's latest collection of critical essays marks a move back from Irish culture and politics to poetry itself as the critic's central concern. She considers how poets are read and received... -
Empedocles Shoe by Bertolt Brecht 9780413757302
Booksplease Price: £56.67A key critical work bringing relevance to Brecht's poetry in the 21st century Brecht is increasingly recognised as one of the most important lyric voices of the 20th century. Alongside Rilke he is... -
A Companion to Romanticism Duncan Wu (St Catherine's College, Oxford) 9780631218777
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £39.61The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.About... -
Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry by Clair Wills 9780198182399
Booksplease Price: £32.03This is an innovative and accessible study of contemporary Northern Irish poetry in the light of current debates about post-modernism, poetry and politics, and the figure of woman in Irish political... -
Rude Britannia Mina Gorji 9780415382779
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.93Media commentators have noted a rising public tolerance to the use of rude or offensive words in modern English. John Lydon's obscene outburst on 'I'm a Celebrity...' only provoked a handful of... -
Sophisticated Boom Boom by John Kelly 9780099285960
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51In Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, in the seventies, nothing happens. Every day. Teenagers Declan Lydon and his trusted friend Spit Maguire stand under lampposts waiting to be overtaken by some hormonal... -
Dubliners James Joyce 9780241405918
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.69'Joyce's early short stories remain undimmed in their brilliance' Sunday TimesJames Joyce's earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time... -
In The Heart Of The Country by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster... -
Major Works by John Clare
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a generous selection of Clare's poetry and...