Poetry & Verse

Nessa O'Mahony - Dodder Daughter - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, published by Salmon Press, April 2026.  Nessa O’Mahony’s sixth collection, Dodder Daughter, explores the feminine in all its cycles, charting a river’s course through youth,...

Thomas F. O'Rahilly - Dánfhocail : Irish Epigrams in Verse - PB - BRAND NEW

Dánfhocail: Irish Epigrams in Verse is the first ever translation of the concise, poetic commentaries found throughout Irish manuscript and oral traditions, originally compiled by T.F. O’Rahilly...

Margo Taft Stever, Sandra Yannone & Susana H. Case ( Editors) - Unsinkable : Poems Inspired by the Titanic - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, published by Salmon Poetry , Clare, April 2026.  BRAND NEW. 

Seamus Heaney (Marco Sonzogni - Editor) - The Translations of Seamus Heaney - HB - Faber- 2022

Hardcover, published by Faber, 2022, first edition.  Condition - very good, two poems on he contents list ahve ticks beside them, otherwise, unmarked as far as I can ascertain.     'A huge book, an...

Michael Davitt - Scuais - PB - Filíocht

Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim, Baile Átha Cliath.  Cnuasach filíochta .  Ainmnithe do Dhuais Litríochta The Irish Times 1999. Davitt’s poetry makes a defiant statement that Irish-language...

Mairead Ashe Fitzgerald (Editor) - A Terrible Beauty : Poetry of 1916 - PB - BRAND NEW

‘A terrible beauty is born’ WB Yeats’s poignant words have come to immortalise the complex legacy of the Easter Rising, 1916. The poetry that emerged at this time of upheaval in Ireland gave voice to...

Michael Davitt - An Tost ag Scagadh - PB - Filíocht

Cnuasach dánta le Michael Davitt, ceann do mhór fhilí an chéaid seo caite, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , Baile Átha Cliath, 1993, clúdach bog. An ceathrú cnuasach filíochta ón údar.  Glan istigh is amuigh. 

Bernadette Nic an tSaoir - Ar Faonoscailt - PB - Filíocht

Cnuasach Filíochta , foilsithe ag Coiscéim , Baile Átha Cliath, 2015. File as Corcaigh.   

Liam Ó Muirthile - Walking Time agus Dánta Eile ( le CD) - PB -2000 - AS GAEILGE - SÍNITHE / SIGNED

Winner Gradam Litríochta Cló Iar-Chonnachta 1999. Lyrics celebrating the tradesman, and at the same time the work of the poet, as they interweave in these ‘dánta seanchais’ as the author calls them...

Robert Browning / Browning: A Pocket Poet (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

James Healy / Songs of Percy French (Large Paperback)

William Percy French was one of Ireland's favourite sons and his influence on traditional Irish Music can still be felt.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Carl Muller / Propitiations (Large Paperback)

Carl Muller, Sri Lanka’s finest satirist dips his pen and takes aim on many holy cows through poetry. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Tony Kitt - Sky Sailing - PB - BRAND NEW ( Salmon Poetry)

Paperback, brand new , published by Salmon Press, 2026.      About the Author -  Tony Kitt lives in Dublin, Ireland. His family hails from County Mayo in the West of Ireland, as well as from Tuscany,...

Patrick Murray ( Editor) - The Deer's Cry : A Treasury of Irish Religious Verse - PB - 1986

A collection of '300 great poems by 130 of the greatest Irish poets, both contemporary and classical, spanning more than a thousand years'. Foreword by Brendan Kennelly, paperback,  Four Courts...

Nathalie Anderson ( Editor) - Open-Eyed, Full-Throated : An Anthology of American /Irish Poets - PB

Paperback, published by Arlen House 2019, there is a bookshop sticker on teh back cover, light edgewear, otherwise internally as new.  Open-Eyed, Full-Throated introduces forty-four distinct voices,...

E.K Chambers ( Editor) - The Oxford Book of English Verse : 1250-1918 - HB New Edition 1953 ( Originally 1900)

First published in 1932 (this is a 1950 reprint, hardcover without the original plain dustjacket.    Internally unmarked but light uneven sunning/ faded to external blue cloth covers.   

James O'Donnell / Book of Celtic Proverbs (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Denis Murphy / The Frozen Mask (Large Paperback)

A Collection of Poems on Living with Parkinson’s Disease On 15 August 2007, at the age of 48, Denis Murphy was diagnosed with early stages of Parkinson’s Disease. The Frozen Mask refers to the...

Andrew Carpenter (Editor) - Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland - PB - 1998

Published by Cork University Press, 1998. An innovative collection of Irish poetry and verse from the 18th century - including  well known writers such as Swift and Goldsmith alongside lesser known (...

Alastair Fowler / The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse

This anthology includes generous selections from the work of all the century's major poets, notably Donne, Jonson, Milton, Drayton, Herbert, Marvell, and Dryden. It strikes a balance between...

Séamas Ó Céileachair ( Editor ) - Nuafhilí 2 (1953-1963) - HB Poetry Gaeilge Filíocht

An chéad chló,1968 , don chnuasach tábhachtach seo , Nuafhilí 2, foilsithe ag Oifíg an tSolatháir. Eagraithe ag Séamas Ó Céileachair. Fóilsíobh an chéad leabhar sa tsraith ( Nuafhilí 1) i 1956. Tá an...

Piotr Sommer / Things to Translate & Other Poems (Large Paperback)

 E. Adams (Translator), John Ashbery (Translator) Piotr Sommer is on

Francis Turner Palgrave - The Golden Treasury - Presentation Library - HB

The Palgrave Golden Treasury was first published in 1861, and almost immediately became a poetry classic, reprinted many times and never out of print since.  The older sections of the book include...

Jo Slade - In Fields I Hear them Sing : Poems - PB

Published by Salmon Poetry , 1989.

Niall MacMonagle (Editor) / Lifelines : New and Collected (Coffee Table Book)

Letters from famous people about their favourite poems.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same...

Brian Lalor ( Editor) / Forgotten Beauty: Irish Love Poetry Across the Centuries (Coffee Table Book)

Forgotten Beauty is an anthology of Irish love poetry from over fifteen hundred years of Irish writing, presenting the work of famous and lesser known writers. The poems express the loves and...

Edward Fitzgerald ( Translator) - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - HB - Willy Pogany Illustrations

Illustrations by Willy Pogany A slim book, beautifully illustrated in colour.  A reprint (undated but late 1970's/1980's)  Moderate to heavy edgewear , and spotting and darkening to upper edges of...

Joseph Nguyen / Beyond Thoughts (Large Paperback)

An exploration of who we are beyond our minds Beyond Thoughts is a poetry collection that explores the root cause of anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, negative thinking, and emotional suffering to...

Tim McNulty / In Blue Mountain Dusk (Large Paperback)

1992 Broken Moon Press trade paperback, A collection of poetry detailing the author's love of nature and the outdoors.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Tim MacGabhann - Found in a Context of Destruction - PB - BRAND NEW

Novelist and essayist Tim MacGabhann’s debut poetry collection demonstrates a rare confidence and coherence, charting the course of addiction and recovery in a series of formally assured and blackly...

William Baring Gould - The Lure of the Limerick - HB - Illustrated - 1968

( Pen in photio is for scale)  Published by Wordsworth UK, Hardcover, 1989 ( this ediution originally published in 1968, using late 19th century illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.  A collection of...

Francis Turner Palgrave / The Golden Treasury (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Everything Its Own: 15 New Voices in Irish and International Poetry & Fiction (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Kathleen Raine / Selected Poems (Large Paperback)

Poems from 1943- to the present day, Kathleen Raine's pared down style is filled with deeply elemental, powerful imagery, in her unmistakeably female voice   This book is second hand, and while you...

Samuel Beckett ( Seán Lawlor & John Pilling - Editors) - The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett - HB 2012

It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Beckett’s...

Trista Mateer/ Aphrodite Made Me Do It (Large Paperback)

 

Robert Burns / The Complete Poetical Works (Large Paperback)

All Burns' songs and poems are included. Introduction and editorial notes by the late James Mackay.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Lifelines : Letters from famous people about their favourite poem (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Belinda Hollyer / Haven't You Grown! : Poems About Families (Coffee Table Book)

This anthology weaves together the everyday comedy, catastrophes and cuddles that make up modern family life. Over 150 poems - by Wendy Cope, Carol Ann Duffy, Roger McGough, Michael Rosen, Benjamin...

Rolando Ernesto Tellez / Dario's Popular Poems (Large Paperback)

This book contains a compilation of poems written by the most famous Nicaraguan poet, Rubén Darío (1867-1916). He is the founder of a literary movement, "modernismo." Rolando Ernesto Tellez tries to...

Patrick J. O'Connor / To Mete Out A Humanist Geography ( Large Paperback )

This volume of new and selected poems points up the quest to know the world through the perceptual lens of a humanist geography. The world that is informed by a diversity of influences passes as a...

Greg Quiery / Oglet (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Matt Mooney / The Singing Woods (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Robert Hass / Into The Garden - Poetry and Prose in Love and Marriage (Large Paperback)

For brides and grooms who want to give their weddings new depth and meaning, two acclaimed poet-translators have gathered a stunning collection of poems and prose that will add a unique and personal...

Thomas F. Walsh / The Little Illustrated Favourite Poems We Learned at School

This work takes 40 of the most popular po

Gerard Manley Hopkins / The Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins

This work contains all the important poet

Brendan Kennelly ( Editor) / Voices and Poetry of Ireland : A Collection of Ireland's Best Loved Poetry (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

John Moore - The Collected Poems of John Moore - Illustrated and signed by Graham Downie ( Copy 150 of 400) - HB -2002

Hardcover, published by the John Moore Society 2002, this copy is signed and numbered 150 from the total of 500, and is also signed ( after his introduction) by John Shakles. 

Philip Brady / The Moon on the Ruins (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Words on Water- An Anthology of Peems (Hardback)

NB - ex library copy.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing...

John Dunne / Moments in Time (Large Paperback)

Collected poems   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing...

Patrick J. O'Connor / To Mete Out a Humanist Geography (Large Paperback)

This volume of new and selected poems points up the quest to know the world through the perceptual lens of a humanist geography. The world that is informed by a diversity of influences passes as a...