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  • Virtuosity

    Risk and Excess in Poetic Form

    by Ailbhe Darcy ...
    Series series Elements in Poetry and Poetics
    This Element examines how contemporary poets reimagine virtuosity as a mode of poetic performance. It sees virtuosity not as a fixed attribute but a strategic choice - one a poet may enter at specific moments, in specific forms, to heighten the reader's experience. Certain forms are themselves virtuosic, inviting expectations of difficulty, display, and compositional drama. Through readings of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Insistence

    by Ailbhe Darcy ...
    A new child should mean new hope. But what if that’s no longer so? Ailbhe Darcy’s second collection unfolds in an intimate world, in which the words home and love dominate. But the private world is threatened by a public one. Written in the American Rust Belt, in an era of climate change and upheaval, Insistence takes stock of the parent’s responsibility to her child, the poet’s responsibility to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Imaginary Menagerie

    by Ailbhe Darcy ...
    Ailbhe Darcy's debut collection is a set of urgent despatches from her point of origin, Dublin, and from her skirmishes further afield: London, Paris, Africa, Eastern Europe or the States. Driven less by metaphor than by wild conceits, semantic leaps, and startling juxtapositions, these are poems that itch and pluck at the pelt of what we think we know. Darcy is an exuberant and inventive new ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, Vol. IV

    by Trevor Joyce, Aidan Mathews, Peter McDonald, Ailbhe Darcy, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh ...
    Series Book 4 - The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry
    The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry brings lesser-known Irish voices to an American audience. In this fourth volume, editor David Wheatley, himself an established poet and critic, has selected poetry by Trevor Joyce, Aidan Mathews, Peter McDonald, Ailbhe Darcy, and Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh. Each section is introduced with an essay by Wheatley which offers some background, context, and general ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Irish Women's Poetry

    Edited by Ailbhe Darcy, David Wheatley ...
    A History of Irish Women's Poetry is a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women's poetry from earliest times to the present day. It reads Irish women's poetry through many prisms – mythology, gender, history, the nation – and most importantly, close readings of the poetry itself. It covers major figures, such as Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, as well as ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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    by Margaret Atwood ...
    A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret AtwoodIn Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Rainbow Within

    by Heather Prince ...
    A wonderful children's read from author Heather Prince. Most rabbits live happily and contented, rarely having adventures, but not Bumbly Rabbit. She leaps out of her hutch and goes to search for the rainbow within. There are three things that every living being strives for in their lives: Love, Peace and Happiness. The story simply demonstrates that the only way we can experience lasting ... Read more

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  • All fours

    by Nia Davies ...
    Bodies. Rhythms. Motion. Sounds. All fours is a debut collection of poetry from Nia Davies, a book of rituals in language that stalk the space between what is uttered and what is meant. These poems are haunted by the strange traces of the longest words in the world and folk-mythic figures such as Sinbad, Eurydice, Mossy Coat, Pan and Baba Yaga. They pose riddles with multiple or mysterious answers ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Proud Black and White Speckled Hen

    by Colin Reed ...
    The proud black and white speckled hen was different to all the other hens in the farmyard. She had black and white feathers,and all the others hens had brown ones. She considered that being different meant being better and, when an opportunity arose where she thought she could demonstrate that fact,she took it without pausing for a second thought. The error of her decision however,is obvious to ... Read more

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  • Extraordinary Canadians Glenn Gould

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Glenn Gould, one of the world’s most renowned classical musicians of the twentieth century, was also known as an eccentric genius—solitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage performances in 1964, Gould concentrated instead on mastering the various media: recordings, radio, television, and print. His sudden death at age fifty stunned the world, but his music and legacy continue ... Read more

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  • Poetry

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Bernard O'Donoghue ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this--such as Shelley's that the poets 'are the unacknowledged ... Read more

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  • Don't Read Poetry

    A Book About How to Read Poems

    by Stephanie Burt ...
    “At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetryIn Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another—and how ... Read more

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