Poetry
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ABC: New PoemsWritten by Tom MacIntyre.In ABC, Tom MacIntyre's verse dances and simmers on the page. The sensuousness and thrilling force of his language muses on the subtle intricacies of love, nature and humanity, evoking a sense of place and time, linking past and present to the spiritual undercurrent and brutal truth of human existence. |
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An Arid Season: New PoemsWritten by Michael D Higgins.Michael D Higgins' An Arid Season is the distillation of over ten years' work. Inspiring and evocative, this long-awaited new collection is reflective of the changes that were taking place, not just in the poet's life, but also in the world at large. |
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Anthony Cronin's Personal Anthology: Selections from his Sunday Independent FeatureWritten by Anthony Cronin.Anthony Cronin's Personal Anthology was long a favourite of countless Sunday Independent readers, who came to look forward to the remarkable range and diversity of the weekly poem, which appeared along with Cronin's readable, frequently witty and often surprising commentary. Now upon popular request come this single volume with over seventy of these poems, chosen, as Cronin says, 'on the simple basis of personal liking.' |
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Collected PoemsWritten by Anthony Cronin.Collected Poems brings together the work of a poetic lifetime by this celebrated Irish poet, from 1957 to 1999, as well as a number of new poems. This landmark collection displays Cronin’s innate lyrical gift, his honesty to human experience, his range, his always immanent humour and sheer poetic intelligence. |
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Dialogue in Fading Light: New and Selected PoemsWritten by Philip Casey.In his widely acclaimed novels, Philip Casey has shaped a distinctive vision of the emergent Ireland. Now he returns to poetry, in his first collection in almost fifteen years. Quietly asserting that poetry waits to be discovered - rather than being explained or packaged - he blends re-worked older poems with new reflections on love, death and the times we live in, ranging in tone from the light-hearted to the contemplative. |