Product Description: Purporting to be a "lost" seventeenth book of the 16-volume Anthologia Graeca, Book Seventeen uses the themes and images of ancient mythology to conjure a new way of looking at our modern world. Gods of all types line the pages of this collection, from those deities that only operate in our personal spaces-the poet's companion, the demigod Solitude, as well as the elusive god of Complicity-to more familiar divinities in unfamiliar roles, such as Helios shopping in an outdoor market in Paris, or an aging Aphrodite in a short skirt chatting with visitors to an unfamiliar city...read more

Product Description: So Little Time is a revolving door of political activism, spirituality, nature, and humanity. It is a call to action, where urgency meets poetry in no uncertain terms, and asks, What hour are we in? Edited by poet, Irish and U. S...read more

Product Description: The Ship of Birth records a father's responses in the time immediately before and after the birth of his child. Just as material significant to the dead is placed in a ship of death, so this ship of birth contains what is significant to the child: the wonder and trepidation of the parents, the nature of the soul, the future growth of the child...read more

Bringing Greg Delanty's six books together, this book contains poems that draw on an inheritance from the different worlds that Delanty moves in: Ireland and America, Gaelic and English, traditional verse forms and modern colloquial.

Product Description: Irish poet Greg Delanty presents a series of poems that explore the birth of a child. These poems log the days before and after a child is born, detailing the wonder and trepidation of parents, the growth of the child, and speculation on the soul and spirit...read more

Product Description: The poems in THE BLIND STITCH interweave family, marriage, love, and friendship into a larger world of public life. Set in Greg Delanty's native Ireland, in America, and in India, the book is sewn together with two main conceits and arranged thematically in the form of a palindrome...read more

Product Description: Northern Ireland poetry. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Galvin's poetry is steeped in the vitality and humour of a by now almost defunct working-class culture. Galvin is a poet unafraid of passion, with a hatred of totalitarianism and righteousness, a mistrust of public certainties, and an ability to speak in a flotilla of voices...read more

Product Description: Galvin's poetry is steeped in the vitality and humour of a by now almost defunct working-class culture. Galvin is a poet unafraid of passion, with a hatred of totalitarianism and righteousness, a mistrust of public certainties, and an ability to speak in a flotilla of voices...read more

Product Description: When leaving their homes for America, Irish emigrants hold an 'American wake', a gathering that is both festive and mournful. This new collection from Greg Delanty articulates those complex emotions through loving evocations of Ireland, and nervy, excited responses to the dislocating vastness of America...read more

Product Description: Book by Delanty, Greg

Product Description: Book by Delanty, Greg