Product Description: "A book the many fans of Heaney's Beowulf might take home and dip into, almost at random, for years." —Publishers WeeklyFeaturing 123 all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets—including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Richard Wilbur, and many others—“this brilliant anthology infuses new vigor into Old English poetry” (Library Journal)...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: 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

Product Description: The Ship of Birth records a father's responses in the days immediately before and after a child is born. 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 parents' wonder and trepidation, the nature of the soul, the child's future growth...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: "The Blind Stitch" is a book which is sewn together with two main conceits. One is the leper conceit, which is the stitching of personal and public suffering and inescapable complicity; the other is the varied line of stitches, seen and unseen, that connect our private and public lives...read more

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

Product Description: Greg Delanty grew up in a family of printers, and as a youth he worked in the composing room. A hellbox is the bin into which printers chucked broken or worn type, and the conceit that unites this collection is the technology, lore, and tradition of hot-metal printing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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: An important celebratory collection of Irish poetry by graduates of University College, Cork writing in both English and Irish, which groups together poets of international standing in a single volume, Paul Durcan, Eileain Ni Chuilleanain and Michael Davitt...read more

Product Description: Leaving home for America, Irish emigrants hold an "American wake", a gathering that is both festive and mournful. This collection of poems articulates those complex emotions through evocations of Ireland and responses to the dislocating vastness of America.