Poetry & Verse

Jessie Lendennie / Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Salmon Poetry's 2016 celebratory anthology, highlighting its list of Irish, American, British and European poets, all of whom represent the vibrancy of contemporary literature - distinct in style,...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice / Poems of Faith and Doubt (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Gabriel Fitzmaurice was born in 1952, in the village of Moyvane, County Kerry, where he taught in the local elementary school. He is the author of more than forty books, including collections of...

Jo Slade / The Painter's House (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Painter's House is Jo Slade's fifth full-length poetry collection. She traces identity through language and the image, from her experience of displacement and difference to a life lived in the...

Jo Slade / Cycles and Lost Monkeys (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In her latest collection of poems Jo Slade continues her investigation of displacement and difference and illustrates how these experiences can be transformed through poetry, a transformation that is...

Michael S. Begnal - Future Blues - PB

Michael S. Begnal's Future Blues is both a progression of and a break with his previous collection, Ancestor Worship. Inasmuch as any poet's work is a continuing narrative defined by nothing more or...

Drew Blanchard - Winter Dogs - PB - 2011

From Chicago to Moscow, from the Mississippi to Mt. Hood, Drew Blanchard furnishes his landscapes with stories of things people consume (“blackberry pie” and “ice buckets full of Blatz”) and the...

Judith Barrington - The Conversation - PB - BRAND NEW

“This is a brilliant technical achievement; it reminds us all that great poetry is both fine thinking and achieved style. The narrator describes and teaches, telling us that death – and death in life...

Paul Allen - Ground Forces - PB - BRAND NEW

Millicent Borges Accardi - Only More So - PB -BRAND NEW

Only More So is a collection of lyric poems. Sometimes a bridge in a sad song, other times an echo that threatens to develop then fades, the images blend, twist, and entangle one another: a marriage...

Peter J. Gloviczki - The Weight of Dandelions - PB - BRAND NEW

Peter Joseph Gloviczki’s the weight of dandelions explores each moment to discover its essence. Believing there is beauty (and humor) in the everyday world, he declares in one poem: “queen-size bed /...

Niall MacMonagle (Editor) / Lifelines 2 : Letters from famous people about their favourite poem (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Jon Stallworthy / Anthem for Doomed Youth (Coffee Table Book)

Twelve soldier poets of the First World War <

John Betjeman / The Illustrated Summoned by Bells (Coffee Table Book)

This verse autobiography relates the stor

Afric McGlinchey / Tied to the Wind (Coffee Table Book)

Tied to

John G. Fahy / The English in Units Poetry Book (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

X.J Kennedy( Editor) - Tygers of Wrath : Poems of Hate, Anger and Invective

Hardcover, illustrated by Michael McCurdy, publsihed byGeorgia UP, 1981  

Thomas F. Walsh / Illustrated Favourite Poems We Learned at School (Coffee Table Book)

Favourite Poems We Learned at School and its companion volumes More Favourite Poems We Learned at School and Favourite Poems We Learned at School as Gaeilge are enduring bestsellers in Ireland. The...

Francis Frith / One Hundred Favourite Poems (Hardback)

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Gaby Morgan / Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year (Hardback)

READ ME

Brian W. Aldiss / Home Life With Cats (Coffee Table Book)

The introduction to this delightful poetry book, by Desmond Morris, explores the special relationship between writers and cats. Writing being a lonely pursuit, the cat is a perfect companion for the...

Gearóid Denvir (Eagarthóir) - Duanaire an Chéid - Filíocht Gaeilge ón 20ú Céad - HB 2000

Rogha an eagarthóra, Gearóid Denvir, de na dánta is fearr leis ón bhfichiú haois atá sa leabhar seo. Dánta mar ráitis shuntasacha chruthaitheacha iontu féin seachas saothar le filí faoi leith a...

Mary Kennelly - On the Wind and the Singing Tide : Selected Poems - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, publsihed by Salmon Poetry in June 2026.  “Across nearly twenty-five years of writing, Mary Kennelly has crafted poems that reframe the everyday with startling precision and...

Mark Ward - Real Estate - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, published by Salmon Poetry, May 2026.  The poet's second collection. ''This collection wonders how to successfully create your days when the ground has given way, delving into...

Robin Milner - Gulland / Selected Poems: Yevtushenko (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

Eileen Acheson / I Wonder (Large Paperback)

In her lyrics, Acheson celebrates life: her personal experience embeds itself in Nature. She honors sod and rivers, branches and trees. Colors–purples, yellows, and brown–are her birthright.   This...

Sean O'Connor / Fragmentation (Large Paperback)

Winner of the 2022 HSA Merit Book Award for Best Haibun Book. Fragmentation is a series of meditations on dementia, and the dynamics of memory. Written in the Japanese forms of haibun, haiku and...

Peter Porter / A Porter Selected (Large Paperback)

This selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Published by Oxford Poets.    This...

Rainer Maria Rilke - Sonnets to Orpheus - Dual Language Text - HB

From the library of the late writer Seamus Deane, and with his signature to teh title page, no other marks or damage noted.  This reprint published by Hogarth Press UK, translations of Rilke'e work...

Mike Garry / Mancunian Meander (Large Paperback)

Fourteen outstanding poems are contained in this acclaimed anthology, including Manchester Haiku ~ which was short listed for the Poem for Manchester Competition. A Mancunian rhythmic meandering...

Alexander Pope / Essay on Man and Other Poems (Large Paperback)

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Louis Mulcahy / Clogher Quartet : Book One (Large Paperback)

Mulcahy, Louis. The Clogher - Book One. First Edition. Dingle, An Sagart, 2014. Octavo. 81 pages, PB.  Louis Mulcahy is an award-winning potter and ceramic sculptor who has recently turned his hand...

Brenda Shaughnessy / Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems(Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Moira O'Neill - Songs of the Glens of Antrim - HB - 1906

A small format hardcover, with a very attractive cover , lacks presumed(?) original dustjacket, published by William Blackwood  (this being the 12th impression/ reprint) so obviously a popular title...

Michael Rosen / Nation's Favourite Poems of Remembrance (Large Paperback)

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Billy Ramsell - Render - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, published by Banshee Press, May 2026.    My verses stretch and hesitate,scale their rickety trellises.My fruit comes rust-red, grudging. Render plunges the reader into the...

Máirtín Ó Díreáin - Cloch Choirnéil - PB Filíocht - 1966

Cnuasach filíochta , foilsithe sa gcló seo ( an 3ú cló) ag Clochchomhar, 1966, clúdach bog.  Tá marc fágtha ar an gclúdach tosaigh sa ait a raibh praghas ag am éicint roimhe seo. Istigh, tá nótai (...

Arthur Broomfield / Cold Coffee at Emo Court (Large Paperback)

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Sally Emerson / Be Mine (An Anthology of Wedding Readings) (Large Paperback)

Be Mine: An Anthology for Lovers, Weddings and Ever After

Arthur Broomfield - At Home in Ireland : New & Selected Poems - PB

Paperback, published by Revival Press, Limerick , 2023. 

Lorna Shaughnessy - Throat Full of Feathers - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new , published by Salmon, April 2026.  Lorna Shaughnessy is a poet, translator, researcher and editor. Born in Belfast, she now lives in Co Galway where she lectured in Hispanic...

Peter Goulding / Terry Mancini's Arse (Large Paperback)

239 poems about what the Americans call soccer, most of them darkly funny, some of them wistful and nostalgic, a few angry.This is the cumulation of Peter Goulding's 15 years writing football poetry...

Joseph Brodsky / Nativity Poems: Bilingual Edition (Large Paperback)

Christmas poems by the Nobel LaureateTo Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother's breast, thesteam outof the ox's nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the teamof Magi, the presents heaped by...

Arthur Quiller-Couch - The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse - HB - 1925

A small format hardcover, in blue cloth covers, with titles in gilt to front and spine, published by OUP, 1925. Heavy foxing (age spotting) to the page block.   

Ronan O Snodaigh / Garden Wars (Large Paperback)

A wonderful book of poetry. Wildly allegorical and beautifully written, this is Rónán at his best. Words and rhymes, themes and verse this book will startle and surprise and ultimately satisfy...

Gabriel Rosenstock - Tuairiscíonn Krisnamurphy ó Bhagdad - PB

Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim, 2006.  Tá trí leabhar filíochta scríofa ag Gabriel ina bhfuil Krishnamurphy mar chuid den teideal, Eachtraí Krishnamurphy, Krishnamurphy Ambaist! agus Tuairiscíonn...

Sean Dunne / Time and the Island (Large Paperback)

Two weeks before his death, at the age of thirty-nine, Seán Dunne presented to The Gallery Press, Time and the Island, his third collection of poems ‘I have given up doubt,That old worn-out coat.All...

Jerome Kiely / Swallows in December (Large Paperback)

Swallows in December? Impossible! Not for a poet. Poetry is born of the unexpected. Kiely's swallows are the poems. December is any time you need a glint of beauty.   This book is second hand, and...

Nessa O'Mahony - Dodder Daughter - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, published by Salmon Press, April 2026.  Nessa O’Mahony’s sixth collection, Dodder Daughter, explores the feminine in all its cycles, charting a river’s course through youth,...

Thomas F. O'Rahilly - Dánfhocail : Irish Epigrams in Verse - PB - BRAND NEW

Dánfhocail: Irish Epigrams in Verse is the first ever translation of the concise, poetic commentaries found throughout Irish manuscript and oral traditions, originally compiled by T.F. O’Rahilly...

Margo Taft Stever, Sandra Yannone & Susana H. Case ( Editors) - Unsinkable : Poems Inspired by the Titanic - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, published by Salmon Poetry , Clare, April 2026.  BRAND NEW. 

Seamus Heaney (Marco Sonzogni - Editor) - The Translations of Seamus Heaney - HB - Faber- 2022

Hardcover, published by Faber, 2022, first edition.  Condition - very good, two poems on he contents list ahve ticks beside them, otherwise, unmarked as far as I can ascertain.     'A huge book, an...

Michael Davitt - Scuais - PB - Filíocht

Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim, Baile Átha Cliath.  Cnuasach filíochta .  Ainmnithe do Dhuais Litríochta The Irish Times 1999. Davitt’s poetry makes a defiant statement that Irish-language...