Collected Poems represents John Montague’s long and remarkably rejuvenative career, nearly forty years. In the three celebrated sequences comprised in Part 1, in the individual love poems of Part 2, a
This volume reveals a crucial body of work in Irish poetry, previously unavailable in North America. Beginning with a number of his precocious lyrics, written in Hartnett’s teens, the volume continues
Following the remarkable riches of Gorse Fires, the poems brought together under the title The Ghost Orchid share some of the same concerns, but take many different approaches. Whether in the west of
Halfway up the remote fortress of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is a long wall of polished plaster, with mysterious golden women painted on the rock above, who seem to be dancing in the clouds. Twenty of thes
Richard Murphy emerged in the 1950s with John Montague and Thomas Kinsella as one of the three major poets in the new Irish poetic renaissance. His second volume Sailing to an Island, which was a Poet
Generous selections from each of Medbh McGuckian’s first five collections (from 1978?1994) serve as an introduction to this gloriously gifted?and pioneering?poet, as a stock-taking moment to reconside
In The Brazen Serpent, among other preoccupations, poems explore how the most basic legends?family stories?fragment and alter in each individual’s memory. Ni Chuilleanain’s language is supple and acut
Collected Poems represents John Montague’s long and remarkably rejuvenative career, nearly forty years. In the three celebrated sequences comprised in Part 1, in the individual love poems of Part 2, a
Pharaoh’s Daughter, published in Ireland by Gallery Press in 1990, contains forty-five poems in Irish by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill with translations by thirteen distinguished poets from Ireland. In this rev
The Astrakhan Cloak offers poems selected from Feis, Ni Dhomhnaill’s collection in Irish, and translated by Paul Muldoon. Ni Dhomhnaill’s skillful negotiations between the forms, fables, and idioms of
This edition contains selections from John Montague's early work, including poems from many of his books: Poisoned Lands, A Chosen Light, The Rough Field, A Slow Dance, The Great Cloak, The Dead Kingd
Torqueing and tuning his long lines to the demands of rhyme, Carson skitters from Northern Ireland to Romania to the ?twin volcanoes?Balalaika, Karaoke,” from the Irish language to the Latin roots of
Belfast Confetti, Ciaran Carson’s third book of poetry, weaves together in a carefully sequenced volume prose pieces, long poems, lyrics, and haiku. His subjects include the permeable boundaries of Be
With this third collection, Medbh McGuckian deepens her exploration of the tension between imaginative and quotidian experience in suburban Belfast. In poems that explore a woman’s intense inner
In The Brazen Serpent, among other preoccupations, poems explore how the most basic legends - family stories - fragment and alter in each individual's memory. Ni Chuilleanain's language is supple and
