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Coinciding with the National Library of Ireland launching a major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Seamus Heaney, '100 Poems' is a singular, accessible collection for new and younger readers that has the opportunity to reach far and wide, now and for years to come. -
Following the success of her lockdown collection What Day Is It? Who Gives a F*ck, Jan Brierton returns with a new collection of 52 poems that riff on menopause, midlife, the mental load, friendships, relationships, loss and self-acceptance.Â
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Hearkening back to the education of previous generations, this is an anthology of the poetry that was traditionally taught by rote to pupils many years ago. The book includes Irish, English and American poets. -
Number One Sunday Times bestselling author Rupi Kaur presents guided poetry writing exercises of her own design to help you explore themes of trauma, loss, heartache, love, family, healing and celebration of the self. -
Ana and Connor have been having an affair for three years. In hotel rooms and coffee shops, swiftly deleted texts and briefly snatched weekends, they have built a world with none but the two of them in it. But then the unimaginable happens, and Ana finds herself alone, trapped inside her secret. How can we lose someone the world never knew was ours? How do we grieve for something no one else can ever find out? In her desperate bid for answers, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach - Connor's wife Rebecca. Peeling away the layers of two overlapping marriages, 'Here is the Beehive' is a devastating excavation of risk, obsession and loss. -
A revised hardcover edition of the Number One Sunday Times bestseller home body by rupi kaur, author of the Number One Sunday Times bestsellers milk and honey and the sun and her flowers. Rupi's long-awaited hardcover edition debuts exclusive poems and is beautifully clothbound and foil stamped. -
A collection of Emily Dickinson's vast archive of poetry. -
The poems in this book came to me as gifts, and I am passing them on to you as my gift. As I've said in my previous two books, I find it almost impossible to just sit down and write a poem or a song -- and I greatly admire those who have this talent. My poems seem to grow organically and just appear when they are ready and I am receptive. I first started to write poetry while in college, in addition to obtaining graduate degrees in Physics and Computer Science. Attending school in the late 60's, I naturally became a self-taught folk singer -- a hobby that I pursue avidly to this day. My career involved designing radar and communications systems for air-traffic control -- combining my scientific bent with my life-long fascination with aviation. Finally, I'd like to thank all those who provided the inspiration for these poems. They appeared almost fully formed in my consciousness -- I had only to write them down before they could vanish i -
'Lessons in Kindness' is a collection exploring identity, sexuality, strength and vulnerability. Through a series of losses and epiphanies, a young woman attempts to make sense of the lessons taught and learned. From the recent referenda in Ireland, to a landscape of women ghosts, Lessons in Kindness is a search for meaning and love, set against the backdrop of the wild Atlantic coast. -
Deeply attuned to those things that make and unmake us, Dylan Brennan's 'Let The Dead' concerns itself with life's alchemical processes. A couple breathe life into a doomed poppet, a photographer immortalises a corpse, Joyce and Breton rub shoulders on the streets of the poet's adopted Mexico, where life is a tapestry of 'delicate anthers' and 'disembodied tongues'. These dark meditations are set against poems which consider love, miscarriage, childbirth and the daily miracle of family life. Beautiful and disturbing by turns, these reflections on Ireland and Mexico's shared colonial past invoke topographies both real and imagined, where 'things in the ground have a tendency to grow'. -
With its complex layering of themes, this unique new work by one of Ireland's finest and most innovative poets is as bold a statement as the building itself.
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The fourth collection from Geraldine Mitchell, a Dublin-born writer who won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry. Her poems offer both a timely warning that the planet is mortal and a reassuring reminder of life's cyclical nature. These poems are a stunning sketch of a world that is a place of great beauty and great challenge. -
Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One. -
"In one poem, Mark Ward writes "body parts should become agents of commotion", at another point he writes "Each touch is a spotlight". In this powerful, energetic collection, the reader is asked to witness the performances, loving, erotic, fearful, which the body must endure." -Andrew McMillan
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Oona, child of first-generation American migrants, lives in an affluent New Jersey suburb where conspicuous consumption and white privilege prevail. As her inner life goes into shutdown, Oona has her first encounters with sex, drugs and other adolescent rites of passage. Written entirely without the letter 'o', the tone of the book reflects Oona's inner damage and the destruction caused by hiding, omitting and obliterating parts of ourselves.
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Poems 1980-2015 brings together and celebrates a poetic career spanning nearly four decades, and includes new, previously unpublished poems.
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From Irish Hospice Foundation, who so compassionately provide end-of-life and bereavement care, this collection provides the gift of words at a time when words can be hard to find.Created in conjunction with Poetry Ireland, this is a collection of words to comfort in the most troubled times.
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The first book to be authored by an Irish non-verbal autistic person, Speechless relates Fiacre Ryan's remarkable life and brings his astounding poetry, social commentary, opinions and ideas to the speaking world.
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Unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku by greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki, and many more. Translated by top-flight scholars. Foreword and many informative notes to the poems. -
What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world's pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings - and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they 'do not/care to be seen as symbols?' With Limón's remarkable ability to trace thought, 'The Hurting Kind' explores those questions - incorporating others' stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honour parents, stepparents, and grandparents: the sacrifices made, the separate lives lived, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance, in retrospect, of having two families. -
A beautiful anthology of some of the best loved poems from childhood, with a new selection of evocative photographs to accompany the memorable lines. -
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An invitation to rethink everything you thought you knew from US poet laureate, Billy Collins
