POETRY

Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day,...

For twenty years Micheal O'Siadhail's beloved wife, Brid, suffered from Parkinson's disease. These love poems chronicle the last two years of her life, her death and his grief. In Love...

In this powerful collection of poetry, Michael Murphy examines such themes as identity, sexuality, love, gay-rights, religion and mythology. Though challenging, his work remains accessible and relatable with a deft...

In this powerful collection of poetry, Michael Murphy examines such themes as identity, sexuality, love, gay-rights, religion and mythology. Though challenging, his work remains accessible and relatable with a deft...

'No poet in Scotland now can take as his inspiration the folk impulse that created the ballads, the people's songs, the legends of Mary Stuart and Prince Charlie,' proposed Edwin...

I rhyme my native village with Cezanne, The place I live and represent in art, A poet finds genius where he can, The picture that he paints is of his...

To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead...

Ian Duhig's erudite, compassionate and often wonderfully droll poetry sits at the intersection of the literary and folk traditions, and moves in an easy and masterly fashion between them. While...

This new reprint of the existing Everyman CANTERBURY TALES retains the essential ingredients of A C Cawley's highly respected edition, but adds a new prefactory introduction by Professor Malcolm Andrews...

'A sequence of poems that no writer would ever wish to write' The Venice Suite is a deeply personal sequence of poems that charts poet Dermot Bolger's experience of sudden...

About Alan Brownjohn's last individual volume of poems, Ludbrooke and Others (2010), Sean O'Brien wrote in the Sunday Times, 'If you don't find yourself laughing at and with Ludbrooke, the...

The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What...