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Paperback. Condizione: New. Join award-winning Irish poet Luke Morgan on an odyssey through lineage, legacy and language, journeying from lands as far as Kathmandu to the poet's homeplace of Oughterard, County Galway. Blood Atlas is an exploration not only of the world we inhabit, but the universe inside the human body.…

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Join award-winning Irish poet Luke Morgan on an odyssey through lineage, legacy and language, journeying from lands as far as Kathmandu to the poet's homeplace of Oughterard, County Galway. Blood Atlas is an exploration not only of the world we inhabit, but the universe inside the human body.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Margaret Nohilly's poetry covers a remarkable variety of subjects: observation of nature, a sense of place, family connections, town and country living, poets and artists. With a natural eye and ear for the poetic, Nohilly's poems are finely tuned and carefully worked to achieve an intensity of sound. The ekphrastic poem, "La Sieste," with its descriptive exuberance illustrates her sense of intimacy. This stunning collection reflects the gravitas of a poet deserving of a wide readership.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Silent Trade is a highly relevant contemporary play set in Belfast about Precious, a young Nigerian woman, who is trafficked into domestic servitude in a suburban house, before being sexually trafficked to a brothel. Eventually, she escapes to freedom and encounters the justice system. This play was inspired by engagement with organizations who deal with human trafficking, and with members of the Nigerian community who have knowledge and experience of exploitation.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. This debut collection is an unflinching and intensely moving evocation of a childhood in rural Ireland. In vivid language, Spaight draws us into a world of parental conflict, poverty, illness, and loss. It is also a world of beauty, love, and courage, with the mother-daughter relationship at its heart. Watching for the Hawk is a marvelous addition to Irish poetry with Spaight giving voice to a changing Ireland through the prism of family.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Lynda Tavakoli's second poetry collection focuses on the need to write from a place of truth, even when it hurts. Many of these poems explore how memory can inadvertently shape thinking throughout our journeys from childhood into adulthood, and the discovery of lessons learned by the looking back. In the short series of 10 stand-alone Gaza poems, words are offered up as a means of expressing emotional reactions to war and its consequences, but also acting as a catharsis.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The sixth book of Homer's Odyssey offers Erin Halliday the ideal lens to explore the inner psyche and embodiments of a young woman in the twenty-first century.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Samuel Beckett's play 'Happy Days' is translated into Irish for the first time by acclaimed Connemara writer Micheál Ó Conghaile. This edition is illustrated with scenes and characters from the first staging of the play in an open air setting on the Aran Islands in summer 2021.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. This deeply moving debut collection is where poetry and history meet. Connie Roberts recounts her childhood in one of Ireland's most notorious industrial schools, coming to terms with this experience and examining the roles played by those around her. A poetic bildungsroman, we follow her life from orphanage to adulthood and work where she looks back without sentimentality and profound brutality.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Sandy Row Riots is a collection of poems that are by turns wry, moving and epiphanic. Rosemary Jenkinson lives up to her reputation as one of the sharpest and most relevant writers working today by alighting on contemporary love and relationships, family ties and the teeming city streets. Her themes deal with life in Northern Ireland, both past and present, paramilitary and suburban.…

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Poems inspired by true events from which the finished product iswoven, are the subject of Focal den Fhírinne : A Grain of Truth, the eleventhcollection of poetry from Celia de Fréine. The struggle to survive and makesense of life are its main themes.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Her poems combine an astute attention to structure and form, with an often hilarious and daring sense of inventiveness, are chockful of vivid images and turns of phrase, often magical in their originality and conception. Her language is precise, yet flowing, direct, yet ironic, emotional, yet unsentimental, and her deployment of regional border slang, idiom, myth and personal anecdote pay rich dividends. Her subjects range from childhood memory to the travails and joys of motherhood and marriage, from the beauty of the local landscape to the amorous exploits of bees and cockatiels. Trish Bennett's is a powerful and entertainingly optimistic voice, a humour-charged, irrepressible instrument that urges the reader to 'crank it up to MAX' in the face of adversity. A gloves-off, no-nonsense debut collection.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Ger Reidy's poetry resounds in its meaty precision, in its hard stare at the terrible face of nature the windy gaps, the endless drudgery, the battle for survival on a small farm while at the same time heartbreaking in its ardent longing to fall into nature. His poetry is inspired by the untamed landscape of Mayo, and his lyrics are peppered with hard-hitting musings on the perennial problems that have bedeviled life on the fringe.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. This collection radiates beauty, honesty, and an authentic poetic voice that seems to overturn everything ugly in human experience. Tender portraits of family roots accompany a kaleidoscopic Strabane and touch on the anxiety of growing up in fraught political times.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Here are the stories of boys, mere children, waiting in the square to be hired by a rich farmer who comes and squeezes young muscles before making his choice. Here is talk of hard borders and heartache; the harsh life of the mill workers; the dark secrets of the river; a journey with the poet's father on the last train to Sion Mills. This is a bittersweet, haunting love song to home.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Although Rainer Maria Rilke is better known for his work in German, he also wrote more than four hundred poems in French. During a residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, Celia de Fréine became familiar with this work and with the man himself. This collection is a response to Rilke's influence and to his French oeuvre, in particular the book Migration des Forces.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The poems in Naming Love celebrate birds and weeds and the changing of the seasons. They lament loss of people and loss of nature. They track the changing of the seasons and notice the little things in the everyday and make them marvellous. Elegiac, unflinching, tender, Geraldine Mitchell's poems are luminous refuge enlivened by responsibility to difficulty and to undistorted report. Mitchell's voice is both coastal and worldly, deeply engrained with locality at the edge of Ireland, and shows we must share together, make sense together. These poems will enrich the reader with their seeming ease, their timbres, their opening onto new, fresh knowledge of a world to which the reader, too, is given intimate presence. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. Time plays a major role in Imbolg, Máighréad Medbh's eighth book of poetry, which explores a period of gestation, culminating in attempted personal change. Over the fifty days of her lockdown diary, written during March and April 2020, her feet walk around a quiet housing estate, past empty buildings and a closed-down society. Change, doubt, and fear inhabit the book in differing forms, but sensual pleasure is always in the frame, and an abiding element of play.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Geraldine Mills is one of the finest and most unique poets to have emerged in Ireland in recent decades. When the Light includes 124 poems selected from her previous poetry collections and her forty-year-long body of work, in addition to new poems completed in recent years.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Following on from her Edge Hill Award shortlisting for Love in the Time of Chaos, Jenkinson returns with Laganside Lights, a bold new collection of short stories brimming with peacemakers and warmongers, lovemakers and lawyers, artists and influencers - all human life is here colliding with kinetic verve. Jenkinson employs her legendary wit to peel back the layers of contemporary Belfast, illuminating the feverish desires, loneliness and pyrrhic triumphs of everyday existence.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. When Patricia O'Connor's novel, The Mill in the North, was first published in 1938, by Dublin's prestigious Talbot Press, the Irish Times heralded it as 'a very human drama . presenting a realistic picture of life in a northern mill village'. For today's reader, the novel skilfully presents to us an Irish community in rural County Down painfully caught between tradition and modernity, where sectarian prejudice and violence can unexpectedly disrupt daily life. Focusing on Nancy Montgomery, a young woman fired from the local mill for insolence, the novel presents the social friction caused by this assertive, principled woman seeking to protect those she loves.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Marching Season is the fifth short story collection by Belfast author writer and playwright, Rosemary Jenkinson, who is renowned for being one of the sharpest and boldest chroniclers of contemporary life. This latest collection boasts a dazzling cast of misfits, artists, musicians, teachers, and would-be millionaires; some striving brightly for success and defying the drift of the modern world, others seeking out new and lost loves. These lyrical, witty, and glittering stories are all bound together by the luminescence of Jenkinson's peerless prose. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. Poet Stephen James Smith's sympathies lie with the addicted and the convicted, often responding to what he finds on life's margins. His sharp-edged forceful language derives from his gifts as a performance poet and his fearlessness in looking into the eye of his subject matter. His poems get their charge, as well as their shape and substance, from his use of demotic rhythms, the vividness of his vernacular and his emotional directness.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Although Liz McManus never knew her maternal grandparents, by using old family papers, she has pieced together their story. Wallace and Margaret McKay are Unitarian by birth and republican by conviction. It is the start of the twentieth century and hopes for Irish independence are growing. Wallace's job takes the young couple and their children to North East India, to the tea gardens of Assam, where, before too long, tragedy strikes. Set in two continents, this is a story about an idealistic couple for whom the new Irish Free State, increasingly dominated by the Catholic Church, becomes an alien place. Even within the family, ruptures are caused, so deep they cannot be breached.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A Lebanese student has had enough of a lecturer's inappropriate advances; a frustrated author takes her revenge on a publisher; a petty dispute over a land boundary escalates wildly; a woman has had enough of her property flooding; a bankrupt developer takes his children to an uninhabited lake isle. In these dark, witty stories, award-winning author David Butler follows the lives of characters who are driven to the edge, and shines a light on the many sides of what it means to be Irish in the twenty-first century.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. This joint collection, Belongings, is an absolute joy to read and represents some of Kate Newmann and Joan Newmann's finest work to date. One of the most interesting aspects of the poetry is its distinctiveness from and, at the same time, its connectedness to the other, both in terms of theme and style. In other words, it is very evident that the poetry is written by two quite separate and individual poets with very different interests and modes of expression, and, yet, there is a relationship between the two that, though difficult to pinpoint, remains remarkably complementary. …