A survey of recent Irish poetry includes works by Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Richard Murphy, Desmond O'Grady, Michael Hartnett, and Sara Berkeley (view table of contents)

Presents selections from the author's five previous volumes of poetry, including many concerned with the conditions of life in Northern Ireland (view table of contents)

Product Description: Derek Mahon is considered by his peers and readers to be the most remarkable poet of his generation. He was born in 1941 in Belfast, and educated at Trinity, Dublin. He lived for some years in London, and now lives both in Dublin and New York...read more

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In The Yellow Book, the home-seeking traveler—”a decadent who lived to tell the story”—finds lodgings in our fierce fin de siècle under the roof of his Dublin attic flat. Amid echoes from dead writers, “clouds of unknowing” from his “last Camel,” and ghosts from his own life, the poet muses wisely and wittily on our wound-down decade and expiring double millennium. These twenty-one absorbing, sometimes mordantly funny, and always delightful meditations offer us both the distinctive details of our shared lives and a theoptic view from "windows flung wide on briny balconies/above an ocean of roofs and lighthouse beams;/like a storm lantern the wintry planet swings." (“Night Thought”) (view table of contents)

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Product Description: British artist Anthony Palliser (b. 1949) is best known for his striking portraits of prominent figures from the worlds of art, literature, theater, and politics. His work ranges from a recent series of large-scale unadorned portrait heads to compelling Lowcountry landscapes and carefully rendered, thoughtful figure studies...read more