Poetry & Verse

Enid Shomer / Black Drum (Large Paperback)

In Black Drum , Enid Shomer fuses mind with body, knowledge with physical being, and affirms the capacity of language to accomplish this fusion. With clearly fashioned images, her focus often narrows...

Joe Wilkins / Notes from the Journey Westward (Large Paperback)

Notes from the Journey Westward interrogates the idea of America—especially our westering, both historical and contemporary, our rough, rocky journeys through the wind-blown interiors of the...

Harriet Levin / My Oceanography (Large Paperback)

Levin plunges into psychic depths to confront desire, fear and loss. These poems expand borders as her language strives toward transcendence. The life and work of post-minimalist sculptor Eva Hesse...

Christopher Merrill / Watch Fire (Large Paperback)

"Christopher Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinarily rich generation..... This collection shows a complex talent developing and extending its...

Allison Funk, Sonia Sanchez / Living at the Epicenter (Large Paperback)

Winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize 1995 Born in Alabama, educated in New York City, Sanchez is a leading poet of the Black Arts Movement, whose poetry is written from political, economic,...

Wes Magee - No Man's Land - Poems - PB -1978

Published by Blackstaff Press, 1978, a review slip is loosely laid in. Unevern sunning to the red covers Magee was a teacher who published 4 collections of poetry for adults, and 80 books for young...

C Desmond Greaves - Four Letter Verses and The Mountbatten Award - PB 1983

Published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe , UK, 1983. Loosely laid in is a review slip from the publisher, and a letter from then UCD lecturer Anthony Coughlan to then Irish Times writer Donal Fallon ,...

Gillian Clarke - Selected Poems - ( Carcanet Signature Series) PB 1985

Selected Poems, originally in Carcanet's Signatures series, has proven to be one of the most popular volumes of modern Welsh poetry, having gone through six printings in ten years after publication. ...

Alexandra Teague - The Wise and Foolish Builders - Poems - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated

Signed and dedicated by the poet to fellow poet Eavan Boland.  Published by Persea Books, USA, 2015.  A chilling exploration of American progress and its consequences, featuring Sarah Winchester (the...

Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot - PB

Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection of poems. 1992 reprint.  I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or...

Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB

“In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular...

Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985

Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985.  Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric...

Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009

he greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty...

Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY

Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her...

Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition

Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English...

Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995

Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997)

Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey.  This copy is unnumbered, -...

Dylan Thomas / Fern Hill

This is a collection of the poetry of Dylan Thomas - famous for his tempestuous life and early death. Powerful and romantic, they appeal unashamedly to our emotions.     All of our books are second...

Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024)

Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry,...

Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition)

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with...

Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press

A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the...

Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983

Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló.  Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas curta roimhe seo.   

Iain S. Thomas / I Wrote This for You : Just the Words (Large Paperback)

The follow-up to the #1 bestseller, I Wrote This for YouI Wrote This For Just The Words presents twice the number of entries with over 400 works from the internationally acclaimed poetry and...

Robert W. Service / The best of Robert Service

In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the...

Jean Oliver Héron & Pierre Marchand - La France en Poésie - PB - Folio

A collection of classic poetry in French This reprint 2001 Folio Junior

John Betjeman / Collected Poems (Large Paperback)

When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's iCollected Poems /ifirst appeared in 1958, it made publishing history, and has now sold more than two million copies to a steadily expanding readership...

Voices and Poetry of Ireland: A Collection of Ireland's Best Loved Poetry with Recordings by Ireland's Best Loved Figures (Coffee Table Book)

 A rich and colourful celebration of the poetic heritage of Ireland, this CD and book anthology features classic and contemporary Irish poems read by 100 of the best-known voices in Irish life. A...

Luisa Castro - Whales and Whales ( Bilingual Edition) - April 2024

The first English translation of one of the most pivotal collections in contemporary Galician poetry, Disarmingly vulnerable and intensely liberating, these poems reveal the dreams of a young girl...

Liam Ó Muirthile - Walking Time agus Dánta Eile ( le CD) - PB -2000 - AS GAEILGE

Winner Gradam Litríochta Cló Iar-Chonnachta 1999. Lyrics celebrating the tradesman, and at the same time the work of the poet, as they interweave in these ‘dánta seanchais’ as the author calls them...

Biddy Jenkinson - Táinrith - PB 2013

Foilsithe ag Coiscéim, Baile Átha Cliath, 2013.  Tá cáil ar fúd an domhain ar Táin Bó Cuailnge, cnuasach iontach de scéalta agus d’eachtraí éagasúla. Cuireadh leis agus baineadh den Táin i...

James Anthony Kelly / The Creator's Song - Poems (Large Paperback)

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Eithne de Lacy / Bitumen & Pitch (Large Paperback)

Bitumen & Pitch is a poetry collection and memoir of a woman relearning who she is. Three weeks before her mother’s death with dementia, Eithne de Lacy, then forty-three years of age, discovered that...

Francis A. Waldron / Reams of Rhymes: Selected Verse (Large Paperback)

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Philip Egan / Rhymes for a Starry Night (Large Paperback)

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Lawrence Sail / Building into Air (Large Paperback)

 The unifying themes of Building into Air are the human search for home, and the sense of striving which Lawrence Sail finds in `the bright attempt to build / the city's simulacrum into high air'...

Daniel Weissbort / Letters to Ted (Large Paperback)

 Letters to Ted is a remarkable collection of poems in memory of the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, with whom Daniel Weissbort struck up a friendship, both literary and personal, during their...

Harry Guest / Some Times (Large Paperback)

 Memory, including the tricks it plays, is this book’s overriding theme. The poems seek to revive happy, confusing, sad and celebratory times over more than half a century, from affairs in distant...

John Hartley Williams / Double (Large Paperback)

 John Hartley Williams is an English poet marooned in Berlin, where he has lived for nearly 20 years, through times of great upheaval and change. The streets he knew in West Berlin used to peter out...

Joseph Harrison / Someone Else's Name (Large Paperback)

 Poetry. "SOMEONE ELSE'S NAME is a first book full of stunning performances, each one infused with wit, feeling, and humanity, and each one delighting in the full use of the medium and its devices...

Bounty Books - Classic Love Poems (Hardback)

Hardback anthology of classic love poems.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition...

John F. Deane / In Dogged Loyalty : The Religion of Poetry - The Poetry of Religion (Large Paperback)

   Many poets, down through the long and rich tradition of poetry in English, have devoted their imaginative energy to questions of God, belief and service. Many of these poems are perhaps the most...

Lee Frank / Next : A Poetic Odyssey (Large Paperback)

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Poems of Gitanjali (Large Paperback)

 This book contains work by the child poet Gitanjali (born June 1961 - died Aug 1977), on the subject of cancer, dying, God, and the love between herself and her family (especially her parents), and...

Eugene Fullerton / Day To Day Secrets (Large Paperback)

 This is the second instalment of simple rhyming poems written on the spur of the moment, mostly one daily, for both the young and the old to enjoy. Some will make you think, some laugh and some cry...

Pat Boran / Local Wonders: Poems of Our Immediate Surrounds (Large Paperback)

 What do we love? When troubles and doubts threaten to overwhelm, what sustains or inspires us? What are the things we cannot do without?Recent events have made many of us question a great deal about...

Alice Taylor / The Journey: New and Selected Poems (Hardback)

 Alice Taylor's poems have proved perennially popular. Some have been woven into her phenomenally successful memoirs, and she has published three previous books of poetry. Organized thematically,...

AnthonyHolden / Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them (Hardback)

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Sigerson Clifford / Ballads of a Bogman

  Sigerson Clifford has set his poems against the mountain backdrop that edges Dingle Bay from the Laune to the Inney. He has a special feeling for the beauty of the valleys and mountains of Kerry...

Christina Reihill / Soul Burgers

Soul Burgers is a recovery story told through verse. Inspired by Dante's spiritual climb for personal freedom, this three part odyssey is a contemporary narrative of breakdown to...

Samantha King Holmes / Don't Tell Me Not to Ask Why: Poetry & Prose

 Maybe all the answers to all your questions are living within you, waiting to be discovered after finding more of yourself.Don’t Tell Me Not to Ask Why , Samantha King Holmes’s second solo poetry...

John Doyle / Nova Lumina

  John Doyle writes prickly poems, nostalgic poems, poems that butt against the reader’s face, and poems that snuggle under the chin of everyone in the pub. Which does not mean Nova Lumina  contains...

Anthony Holden / Poems That Make Grown Women Cry

 ‘A deep and valuable collection that you could rely upon in your time of need’ The Times