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
In The Yellow Book, the home-seeking traveler?”a decadent who lived to tell the story”?finds lodgings in our fierce fin de siècle under the roof of his Dublin attic flat. Amid echoes from dead writers
Out of this absence he writes from lower Manhattan, addressing, in ramble or vigil, his absent lover, his children in London, Auden, Yeast's father, and other cosmic vagrants, "clutching our bits and
Mahon writes from lower Manhattan, addressing, in ramble or vigil, his absent lover, his children in London, Auden, Yeats’s father, and other cosmic vagrants, ?clutching our bits and pieces, arrogant
The Twelfth of Never, which comprises seventy-seven sonnets written in alexandrines, floats on (or submerges in) the ideal republic or the Otherworld promised in fairy stories, aislings, the land of C
Readers of Captain Lavender, especially if they are among the enthusiastic followers of the four previous volumes, will find McGuckian here, for various reasons, easing into clarity, even relaxing int
This groundbreaking anthology includes poetry from Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Rita Ann Higgins, Paula Meehan, Mary O’Malley, Kerry Hardie, and Moya Can
The poems in this volume vary widely in length, subject, and setting (from Mayo, to Tuscany, to Japan). With a Zen-like grace, even the briefest poems hurdle logical gaps and sidestep reason to get to
In the deft and mysterious poems of Marconi’s Cottage, McGuckian evokes the uncanny presence of a muse whose ?unseduceable two rows of small black doors” hinge life and death, the two sides of a singl
Philippe Jaccottet is one of a group of poets who turned away from the Surrealists’ sometimes abstruse experiments with form in favor of a muted lyrical expression born of a quasi-fraternal bonding wi
The poems in this volume vary widely in length, subject, and setting (from Mayo, to Tuscany, to Japan). With a Zen-like grace, even the briefest poems hurdle logical gaps and sidestep reason to get to
Crossing easily the borders between the mythic and the everyday, writing familiarly of the gods of classical times or ancient Ireland and the household gods of our own age, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill reminds
