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Gabriel Rosenstock
Are you a nervous person, easily spooked? Then please don't open this book. It contains Splookies, nasty critters! Written by Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock, and with colorful artwork provided by…
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When a snail starts following a shining path, he begins to wonder: 'What is this? What does it mean? Where is it going? Where did it begin? Where will it…
Follow Samuel Snail as he navigates a mysterious, luminescent path, and makes new friends! Along they way, Samuel and his new friends will try to figure out what the purpose…
In Haiku, the Gentle Art of Disappearing, a renowned Irish poet shows us how haiku may be used as a powerful tool for spiritual interpenetration. This implies that we divest…
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A renowned poet shares his experience of haiku and its potential to surprise us again and again into a sudden awakening and thus to a deeper sense of what it…
There’s something for nobody-the poet himself insists!-in Rosenstock’s latest volume of poems from The Onslaught Press, a publisher of poetry and haiku that has championed his recent body of work…
Previously published in 2009 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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Strange goings on in Powl Duv, a sleepy village in Kerry, Ireland, where the one-man Kerry Detective Agency (KDA) gets bogged down in one mystery after another. And what sort…
The debut collection of English poetry by an Irish poet.
A collection of essays originally published in The Irish Times, covering a variety of subjects, including religion, politics, and environmental issues, among others.
Gabriel Rosenstock has transcreated extracts from Kropotkin's classic Mutual Aid to reshape the inspirational texts as bilingual 'Whitmanesque Cantos for the Future of Man'.
Ideal for those new to Irish, learning at home or in the classroom, this guide includes a brief history of the Irish language; 10 carefully-paced and practical lessons with dialogues…
A legendary animal, the Sasquatch is hunted by many but seen by very few. These philosophical reflections about the disappearance of species, both real and imagined, can also be read…
Asian tales of Humor and wit.
Inspired by the Mullah Nasrudin, the Sufi embodiment of the wise fool, these sparkling new tales have unexpected twists and turns which might raise…
Goldilocks, What Ever Happed to Her?
This is a book suitable for readers 8-12+, told in verse, and illustrated by an artist who was a kindergarten teacher in the 1930s…
Gabriel, Rosenstock
In this new collection of witty poems, written in Irish, but presented here with the author’s own English language translations, Rosenstock continues his exploration of the meeting points between western…
Transcreations in Irish & English of Issa’s snow haiku by renowned Irish haiku master Gabriel Rosenstock.
A trilingual chapbook to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Lola Ridge, Dublin-born Anarcho-Communist poet. Irish Literature / American Poetry / Activism / Anarchism
There is a story about Popocatepetl, the smoking mountain. A villager who said his name was Gregorio Chino Popocatepetl, the spirit of the mountain, warns villagers if the mountain is…
Herge
Tintin and his friends head for the Caribbean in search of pirate Raga Rua’s lost treasure, and the ship An tAonbheannach. They find the sunken vessel beneath the waves, but…
An encounter with eccentric Egyptologist, Sen Tuama, takes Tintin and his faithful dog, Binn, in search of the tomb of Pharaoh K-Oskh. But the kings resting place contains a dark…
Irish version of Yr Ynys Ddu. Tintin and Milik are out walking when they come across two aviators in dire straits … and that’s when our heroes also find themselves…
Jack Kerouac
For Jack Kerouac the heart of the haiku was the objective beautiful sad ungraspable world as it is. Translated for the first time into Irish, Kerouacs poems are presented in…
A translation into Scots of Gabriel Rosenstock’s Uttering Her Name
Eight haiku and senryu in Irish and English by haiku master Gabriel Rosenstock in response to drawings of hedge mazes by Mathew Staunton
This is the first product of the ongoing collaboration between artist Ross McKessock & haikuist Gabriel Rosenstock. Inspired by the image of Orpheus in the underworld, Rosenstock has composed a…
94 ekphrastic haiku and senryu in Irish and English by renowned haiku master Gabriel Rosenstock in response to the collages of Karl Waldmann
I met a man from Artikelly / With a double chin and a double belly: / He offered me a taste of jelly- / But served it in a smelly…
Albert Uderzo
A baby appears on Asterix’s doorstep… but where did he come from? Asterix and Obelix have no idea how to look after a child, and are happy for any nursery…
For Jack Kerouac the heart of the haiku was the objective beautiful sad ungraspable world as it is . Translated for the first time into Irish, Kerouac’s poems are presented…
Debiprasad Mukherjee
An atmospheric photo-haiku monograph infused with a garland of Upanishadic texts arranged as haiku.
A stunning and timely anthology of the best of Goan poetry in English and Irish translation, including both favourite and almost-forgotten poems from the past and present. Rochelle Potkar has…
The exquisite fusion of image and word renders a deeply satisfying aesthetic experience, whereby we are transmuted by its profundity, exquisiteness and light. - Paula Marvelly (Author & Editor, The…
Rabindranath Tagore
This unique edition of Tagore’s poetic aphorisms, Stray Birds, commemorates the 150th anniversary of the poet’s birth.
The modern genre of travel writing as practiced by Irish writers is very different to much of what passed for travel writing in Ireland. While the vast majority of Irish…
Ashtavakra
A translation of the Ashtavakra Gita into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock, with Sanskrit text transcribed by John Richards.
John McDonald
118 haiku in Scots by haiku master John McDonald with transcreations in Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock. Raw, real, disturbing and beautiful, these haiku are an invitation to see more clearly…
Rene Goscinny
Cuirtear Asterix agus Obelix ar misean speisialta chun na Roimhe mar gur bhuail spadhar eigin a gceannaire, Taoisix. Caithfidh siad coroin labhrais Chaesair a thabhairt abhaile chun na gaille leo…
Aoife Staunton
A series of short, chant-like texts by six-year-old Aoife Staunton with translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock and into French by Michel Jovet. Illustrated by the author.
Obelix is head over heels in love with Fuilibili, but she’s distraught when she realises her fianc Brnormix has been forced to join Caesar’s army. To make her happy again…
With The Naked Octopus Irish writer Gabriel Rosenstock returns to the poetic form he has made his own: the haiku. The 73 haiku in this collection chart the imaginings and…
One of Gabriel Rosenstock’s finest collections of poetry. Follow his conversations with the poet Li He in this illustrated work.
Constantin Barbu
Poetry translated from the Romanian
This is a translation edition.
The scope of Constantin Barbu’s poem ABANDONMENT OF THE VOID–a tenvolume work written over many years–places it in the long…
This timeless picture book retells the story of a resourceful child and a village that struggles to listen.
