Between the Lines: Poems on the Dart

One hundred and forty-four poems were selected by the editor from the two hundred or so displayed on DART carriages between 1987 and 1994: short enough for passengers to read without missing their stops, resonant enough to inspire reflection, disquiet...

Cats & Their Poets : An Anthology

'Whether it is their caressibility, their demonstrably close kinship with the most magnificent predators in the world, their flexibility both moral and physical, their aesthetic sense of disposing themselves in attitudes fit to drive a sculptor to...

Dancing with Kitty Stobling

Patrick Kavanagh exhorted his audience to 'Come Dance with Kitty Stobling', where he envisioned his 'rhyme / Cavorting on mile-high stilts' across the 'colourful country' to the amazement of earthbound onlookers. Kitty Stobling was his zany, carefree muse,...

Dublin's Other Poetry

DUBLIN' S writers rarely remain solemn for long: their wicked sense of humour has travelled the world. This is an irresistible new anthology of what used to be called 'comic and curious verse' about the city, written by some of her most entertaining poets ...

Ireland's Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus

DRAWN FROM FOUR CENTURIES of writing in English by the famous and the forgotten, Ireland's Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus is a major new anthology of entertaining and unusual poems, rhymes and songs. It revisits a forgotten Irish poetic landscape, brin...

Ireland's Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus (Limited Edition)

This edition of 100 signed copies of Ireland's Other Poetry has been issued with a limited edition etching by Hector McDonnell. The first 26 copies are lettered A-Z; the remainder are numbered 1-74.

With over 300 lively illustrations by Hec...

James X

'He was always a great actor and talker. Words loved him. Now he's a great writer.' -Bono

'James X is like nothing we have seen before. Flynn's use of documents and the interplay between the printed file, his own memories,...

Malinski (HB)

'A well-crafted, intelligent story. There is much to admire in O'Donovan's novel: her treatment of memory and the tricks it can play give the story its shape; her writing is confident and her descriptions powerful, often beautiful. S Malinski is a...

Malinski (PB)

'A well-crafted, intelligent story. There is much to admire in O'Donovan's novel: her treatment of memory and the tricks it can play give the story its shape; her writing is confident and her descriptions powerful, often beautiful. Malinski is a strong...

November Wedding and Other Poems

Winner of The Brendan Behan Memorial Award 1999
'These quiet, definite poems seem to be about familiar things: country weather and household furniture and a kitchen garden facing south. But the dailyness is an illusion and the poems end up ...

On A Ledge, New and Selected Poems

On a Ledge, New and Selected Poems stems from six previous collections, the first published in 1931, and includes work composed shortly before the writer's death in 1992.

These...

Poems and Translations

First published in 1931, Robin Flower's enchanting lyric poetry combines with his translations from the old, medieval and modern periods of Irish literature.

'Mr Flower's poetry has loveliness and spontaneity. Though, as his sonne...

Selected Poems of James Henry

Death, I'd beg one favor of thee:

Whensoe'er thou'rt pleased to take me

From my weeping Katharine, take me

All at once - I'd have no Farewells

Where the parting is for ever.

Born in Dublin in 1798 and educated at Trinity College, ...

Stories of the Wandering Moon

'You're touching me differently, aren't you?
Do that again, please -that's it exactly-
you've moved to meet your far fingertips..'

...

Sudden Thaw

My alarm clock is gasping for air.

One by one the minutes bop up

To the surface.

From "Insomnia"

"Puts words on exactly the kind of emotions that censors fear most: subtle, elusive and tinged with erotic intensity.”

The Achievement of Seamus Heaney

The Nobel Prize for Literature has drawn unprecedented attention to the poetry and prose of Seamus Heaney, who now takes his place alongside Dante and Yeats. Yet in spite of his international reputation, some still see Heaney as an earthbound, pastora...

The Great Hunger and The Gallant John-Joe

'Tom Mac Intyre is in the forefront of the theatrical avant-garde in this country. From The Great Hunger to Kitty O'Shea, his plays are inventive and provoking, brimming with a heady mix of dramatic gesture, verbal zest, bodytalk. They make li...

The Poet's Chair: The First Nine Years of the Ireland Chair of Poetry

Celebrating nearly a decade of the Ireland Chair of Poetry, The Poet's Chair brings together public lectures given by the first three Ireland Professors of Poetry, John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomnhaill and Paul Durcan, during their time in tenure.

The Poet's Chair: The First Nine Years of the Ireland Chair of Poetry

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Celebrating nearly a decade of the Ireland Chair of Poetry, The Poet's Chair brings together public lectures given by the first three Ireland Professors of Poetry, John Montague, Nuala N...

Ulster's Other Poetry

ULSTER' S OTHER POETRY proves that the people of Ulster have never been humourless or dour. Far from it. With its sparkling variety of rhymes, songs and humorous poems from every tradition of the province, the book demonstrates that those who dwell in the ...

W.S.Landor, One Hundred Poems

Walter Savage Landor was born in Warwick, in 1775, and died in Florence in 1864. His output in prose and poetry was prodigious. 'No English writer - no English poet - of equal size and quality has been less attended to in the last fifty years'...