Scapegoat and Other Poems displays the remarkable versatility of Alan Gillis’s voice, the range of his subjects, and the perspicacity of his poems. He moves from the popular to the political, from the
In this volume, Medbh McGuckian unfolds a beautiful array of themes?art, religion, landscape, nation, home?that will be as seductive to initiates as they are glowingly familiar to lovers of her work.
In Flight and Earlier Poems, the cultural creation and romantic myths surrounding such themes as home, family and landscape are set against the harsh realities of Ireland's history. They are also burd
The title of Medbh McGuckian’s newest volume, Blaris Moor, refers to a traditional ballad that commemorates the trial and execution in 1797 of four militia men condemned by the authorities as members
Harry Clifton, who divides his life between Ireland and elsewhere, is widely considered a bridge between younger and older Irish poets. This new volume provides further evidence of his pivotal positi
Ileana M?l?ncioiu is considered a hero and visionary in Romania, where she lived under the oppressive Ceausescu regime, learning to make oblique statements both her art and political instrument. Eilea
Following the publication of Collected Poems, and the critically acclaimed For All We Know, Ciaran Carson has produced in just over one short but powerfully felt year two extraordinary volumes of poe
Following the publication of Collected Poems, and the critically acclaimed For All We Know, Ciaran Carson has produced in just over one short but powerfully felt year two extraordinary volumes of poe
Thomas Kinsella’s Selected Poems is proof of how acutely the artist has answered his own description of poetry as a way of ?eliciting order from significant experience.” The formal landscapes, severel
What does it mean to be an Irish poet? Each of the five poets included in this volume?Sean Lysaght, Moya Cannon, Thomas McCarthy, John F. Deane, and Maire Mhac an tSaoi?provides a distinctive answer t
Frank Ormsby’s keen eye is trained on numerous subjects: the unheralded country people in Northern Ireland, American soldiers stationed there during World War II, and the rich natural world of Westche
In The Shack, contemporary Irish poets reflect on their time in the foothills and mountains that straddle North Carolina and Virginia. The volume is a conversation in poetry and prose across a wide ar
Ciaran Carson is among the most restlessly groundbreaking poets now writing in English. In From Elsewhere, he adds yet another dimension to his poetry and to the act of translation by combining them i
A generation before the groundbreaking achievements of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Biddy Jenkinson, Medbh McGuckian, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Rita Ann Higgins, and others, and in more daunting s
In The Stairwell, his tenth collection, Michael Longley’s themes and forms reach a new intensity. The second part of the book is a powerful sequence of elegies for his twin brother, Peter, and the dom
Originally written in the Irish language by the 18th-century poet Brian Merriman (circa 1745-1805), The Midnight Court is here translated by Ciaran Carson. This extended satiric poem assesses the grow
Few poets can alter readers’ orientation as radically as does Ciaran Carson. In Breaking News, this former master of the long line employs two- and three-syllable lines to alter tempo, the time of his
Winner: 2017 PEN Pinter Prize A remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been for nearly fifty years Michael Longley’s home-from-home, his soul-landscape. Its lakes and mountains, wild anima
