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John McDonagh
Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland’s most important and popular contemporary poets whose prolific output extends to over forty volumes of poetry and translations since the publication of his first…
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Brendan Kennelly
Published on his 75th birthday, this new selection presents just over a hundred of Brendan Kennelly’s most essential poems, accompanied by an audio CD of his own readings drawn from…
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Buffun is wracked by the living nightmare of Irish history. His torments are surreal but no less frightening than the awful truth. When Oliver Cromwell turns up, the hapless buffoon…
In a frantic world, the momentary glimpse can spark a sudden flash of insight. This resonating glimpse-caught on the move-ripples through the mind, illuminating past and present, fast-forwarding in a…
The Book of Judas, Brendan Kennelly’s 400-page epic poem in twelve parts, was the number one bestselling book in Ireland. The Little Book of Judas is a distillation of that…
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This mischievous poet is alive and kicking. He is a satirist trying to define generosity, happiness and love, with scurrilous candour and piercing clarity, in brief punchy poems. But no…
Familiar Strangers is Brendan Kennelly’s own selection from over 20 poetry books written over five decades. This landmark volume replaces his earlier selections A Time for Voices, Breathing Spaces and…
This compilation brings together Brendan Kennelly’s modern versions of three Greek tragedies: Antigone by Sophocles and Euripides’ Medea and The Trojan Women. All three plays dramatise timeless human dilemmas as…
Addresses the question: What is ‘now’? This book takes us on a journey through a dark night of the soul, through the thoughts and feelings of various kinds of people…
A collection of poems that are inspired by an autumn sojourn in America where the author would sit by the edge of a reservoir, trying to cope with loneliness by…
New book of satirical poetry from Ireland’s most popular poet featuring Guff, Devil’s advocate and self critic, everyman and every writer consumed by self-doubt and self-questioning.
This selection of Brendan Kennelly’s critical writing is as illuminating in what it says about his own ideas and methods as it is about the writers whose work he discusses…
Astley,Kennelly
The ultimate reader’s companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from five centuries with lively companion commentary to go with and illuminate each poem. Modern poets include Delmore…
Federico Garcia Lorca
Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca’s Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. This edition…
Katie Donovan
The is the first volume of its kind to present a collection of writings by and about Ireland’s women. From Queen Maeve of Connaught to President Mary Robinson, this book…
Erwin Otto
Das in einem Zeitraum von ca. 15 Jahren vorgelegte lyrische Werk eines jungen Autors wird im Kontext spezifisch irischer gesellschaftlicher und politisch-historischer Fragestellungen analysiert, um zum einen die Basis eines…
Rudi Holzapfel
This new collection covers poems by Rudi Holzapfel from his earliest published attempt at Trinity College, Dublin, when he was just 21, through his years in Leeds and Bonn, and…
