Poetry & Verse

Gustav Parker Hibbett - High Jump as Icarus Story - PB - BRAND NEW

Just inside the track’s concentriccircus rings, at the football field’shead, is where I learned to wearthe gaze of other people like a queenwears feathers. In High Jump as Icarus Story, Gustav Parker...

Dylan Brennan - Let the Dead - PB - BRAND NEW

Deeply attuned to those things that make and unmake us, Dylan Brennan’s Let the Dead concerns itself with life’s alchemical processes. A couple breathe life into a doomed poppet; a photographer...

Bebe Ashley - Gold Light Shining - PB - BRAND NEW

Within five minutes, I knew I loved the stranger in my head. In her debut collection of poetry, Bebe Ashley spins gold from the detritus of the internet. A landscape often depicted as a wasteland is...

Roseann Lloyd - Tapdancing for Big Mom - PB - 1985

"In her first collection of poetry, Lloyd extends women's linguistic range by leading the way toward affirming a language power which is feminine and which, for many women writers, has been repressed...

Mary Jo Salter - Sunday Skaters : Poems - HB -1994

Hardcover first edition, published by Knopf USA, 1994, First Edition hardcover.  Mary Jo Salter gives us subtle, witty, and moving poems that reflect a woman's travels through love, family, time, and...

Robert Burns - The Poems of Robert Burns - HB ( Oxford Standard Authors Edition) - 1963

Gift inscription to previous owner on the front endpages, price clipped on inside front flap.  Although heavily dustdarkened on the top edges of the page block, otherwise unmarked, a solid, small...

Janet Sylvester / The Mark of Flesh (Hardback)

A collection of poems explores the historical, political, and sexual elements of the relationship between men and women     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Mary Kinzie / Ghost Ship: Poems (Hardback)

Since his work first be to appear in the early 1960s, Thomas Disch has proven himself, again and again, to be one of the most prodigiously talented novelist/playwright/poets of our time. In Newsweek...

Cynthia Zarin / The Swordfish Tooth (Hardback)

Deals with thought, nature, meditation, the past, language, friendship, renewal, love, failure, travel, and the imagination     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact...

Mattie J.T. Stepanek / Heartsongs (Hardback)

Mattie J.T. Stepanek began writing poetry at the age of three. In Heartsongs , Mattie explores the uncensored reality of living with a rare form of muscular dystrophy and with the grief associated...

Joan McBreen - A Walled Garden in Moylough - PB - SIGNED -1995

A US first edition paperback, published by Story Line Press, 1995 Signed by the author, undedicated to the title page.   

David R Slavitt - Equinox and Other Poems - PB - 1988

Louisiana State University Press, paperback, 1988.  In his 1988 volume of verse, David R. Slavitt offers some of his finest poetry to date. Equinox is a collection of twenty-five poems on various...

Mary Kinzie / Autumn Eros And Other Poems (Large Paperback)

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Jacqueline Osherow / With a Moon in Transit (Large Paperback)

In With a Moon in Transit, Jacqueline Osherow has given us her most accomplished poetry to date. Integrating the strengths of her earlier work-humor, honesty, artifice, testimony-into compelling...

Elizabeth Alexander / Body of Life: Poems (Large Paperback)

Tia Chucha Press is proud to reprint Elizabeth Alexander’s “Body of Life,” first published in 1996 and a collection that stands as a testament to the well-wrought line with the deeply threaded...

Catherine Phil MacCarthy ( Editor) / Poetry Ireland Review: Autumn 1998 (Large Paperback)

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Deborah Keenan / Happiness (Large Paperback)

Minnesota Book Award for Poetry finalist, 1995. "A very satisfying cumulative beauty. . . .These are, simply, poems about love (while not exactly love poems) and the many forms it takes. They are...

Gwyneth Lewis / Parables & Faxes (Large Paperback)

After reading English at Cambridge, Lewis came to America as a Harkness Fellow, studying at Harvard and Columbia, and working in New York as a freelance journalist. Currently she is a television...

Enid Shomer / Black Drum (Large Paperback)

In Black Drum , Enid Shomer fuses mind with body, knowledge with physical being, and affirms the capacity of language to accomplish this fusion. With clearly fashioned images, her focus often narrows...

Joe Wilkins / Notes from the Journey Westward (Large Paperback)

Notes from the Journey Westward interrogates the idea of America—especially our westering, both historical and contemporary, our rough, rocky journeys through the wind-blown interiors of the...

Harriet Levin / My Oceanography (Large Paperback)

Levin plunges into psychic depths to confront desire, fear and loss. These poems expand borders as her language strives toward transcendence. The life and work of post-minimalist sculptor Eva Hesse...

Christopher Merrill / Watch Fire (Large Paperback)

"Christopher Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinarily rich generation..... This collection shows a complex talent developing and extending its...

Allison Funk, Sonia Sanchez / Living at the Epicenter (Large Paperback)

Winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize 1995 Born in Alabama, educated in New York City, Sanchez is a leading poet of the Black Arts Movement, whose poetry is written from political, economic,...

Wes Magee - No Man's Land - Poems - PB -1978

Published by Blackstaff Press, 1978, a review slip is loosely laid in. Unevern sunning to the red covers Magee was a teacher who published 4 collections of poetry for adults, and 80 books for young...

C Desmond Greaves - Four Letter Verses and The Mountbatten Award - PB 1983

Published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe , UK, 1983. Loosely laid in is a review slip from the publisher, and a letter from then UCD lecturer Anthony Coughlan to then Irish Times writer Donal Fallon ,...

Alexandra Teague - The Wise and Foolish Builders - Poems - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated

Signed and dedicated by the poet to fellow poet Eavan Boland.  Published by Persea Books, USA, 2015.  A chilling exploration of American progress and its consequences, featuring Sarah Winchester (the...

Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot - PB

Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection of poems. 1992 reprint.  I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or...

Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB

“In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular...

Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985

Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985.  Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric...

Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009

The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty...

Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY

Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her...

Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition

Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English...

Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995

Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997)

Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey.  This copy is unnumbered, -...

Dylan Thomas / Fern Hill

This is a collection of the poetry of Dylan Thomas - famous for his tempestuous life and early death. Powerful and romantic, they appeal unashamedly to our emotions.     All of our books are second...

Rita Ann Higgins - The Long Weekend - Poems - HB - BRAND NEW ( September 2024)

Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor radio show. This collection of poetry,...

Seamus Heaney - Station Island - Vintage PB 1984 ( US Noonday Press Edition)

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with...

Austin Clarke - Collected Poems - HB - 1974 - First Collected Edition - Dolmen Press

A hardcover first edition, co-published by Dolmen Press Dublin and the Oxford University Press ( this being the Dolmen 'variant' edition) 1974. The poet had died in 1974, but ahd completed the...

Michael Davitt - Bligeard Stráide - PB - Filíocht as Gaeilge - 1983

Clúdach bog, foilsithe ag Coiscéim , 1983. An chéad chló, leabhar atá anois as cló.  Tá marcanna ar an taobh istigh don chlúdach tosaigh ( agus deire) ón áit a baidh praghas curta roimhe seo.   

Iain S. Thomas / I Wrote This for You : Just the Words (Large Paperback)

The follow-up to the #1 bestseller, I Wrote This for YouI Wrote This For Just The Words presents twice the number of entries with over 400 works from the internationally acclaimed poetry and...

Jean Oliver Héron & Pierre Marchand - La France en Poésie - PB - Folio

A collection of classic poetry in French This reprint 2001 Folio Junior

Luisa Castro - Whales and Whales ( Bilingual Edition) - April 2024

The first English translation of one of the most pivotal collections in contemporary Galician poetry, Disarmingly vulnerable and intensely liberating, these poems reveal the dreams of a young girl...

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

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...

Biddy Jenkinson - Táinrith - PB 2013

Foilsithe ag Coiscéim, Baile Átha Cliath, 2013.  Tá cáil ar fúd an domhain ar Táin Bó Cuailnge, cnuasach iontach de scéalta agus d’eachtraí éagasúla. Cuireadh leis agus baineadh den Táin i...

James Anthony Kelly / The Creator's Song - Poems (Large Paperback)

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Eithne de Lacy / Bitumen & Pitch (Large Paperback)

Bitumen & Pitch is a poetry collection and memoir of a woman relearning who she is. Three weeks before her mother’s death with dementia, Eithne de Lacy, then forty-three years of age, discovered that...

Mary Rose Callaghan / Jumping the Bus Queue: The Older Women's Network Poetry Collection (Large Paperback)

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Francis A. Waldron / Reams of Rhymes: Selected Verse (Large Paperback)

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Philip Egan / Rhymes for a Starry Night (Large Paperback)

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Lawrence Sail / Building into Air (Large Paperback)

 The unifying themes of Building into Air are the human search for home, and the sense of striving which Lawrence Sail finds in `the bright attempt to build / the city's simulacrum into high air'...

Harry Guest / Some Times (Large Paperback)

 Memory, including the tricks it plays, is this book’s overriding theme. The poems seek to revive happy, confusing, sad and celebratory times over more than half a century, from affairs in distant...

Julian Turner / Crossing the Outskirts (Large Paperback)

Selected as a POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION in Autumn 2002, Julian Turner's outstanding debut was subsequently shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.  "Julian Turner's...