Poetry Books

Poetry Books by the following authors
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Witty use of words to describe environmental concerns and human follies.

Contains examples of her work as a painter and photographer.

Some Of Me Poetry

Pam Ayres is effervescent, ready to burst with enthusiasm for life.

She enjoys the everyday things we pass over.

Containing the much-maligned poem SLOUGH this book of poems has also been called a Little book of bourgeois poetry.

It also includes the poem `The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel'

This is Francis Brabazon's tribute to Meher Baba who was a major influence on his life.

Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver`s writing.

A collection of poetry and drama in the Everyman's Library.

River Turning Tidal is a book of poems about belonging and about family and all the stresses that are implied there.

This book is Paul Duncan`s response to the invitation by the National Gallery of Ireland to write poems about the collection of paintings at the gallery.

Thomas Hardy was writing poetry before he started to write fiction and long after he finished with fiction.

This is a selection of his shorter poems with some notes.

A picture and a poem for every mood.

There are very many poems by real people to warm you and to revive you.

This is a collection of poetry from one of the finest poets to come out of Ireland.

Humorous and astute poems and drawings by a budding author.

Her second book of poems deals with such subjects as country life, living on a farm as a poor farmer, a civil servant and many more.

John Liddy was born in Cork but now lives in Spain.

This is one of his most renown collection of poems.

THE NIGHT PARROT is Clarinda Harriss Lott`s second book of poetry.

Clarinda teaches writing in Towson State University in Baltimore.

She also directs and edits a small press dedicated to publishing first books by exceptional poets.

John Masefield is considered one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.

This is one of his earliest poems, published first in the English Review for 1912 but reprinted in book form first here in 1913.

Jealousy, desire, seduction, unrequited love, lost love, first love and last love are all covered here.

Famous and not so famous poets are featured.

This collection won Aine the 1992 Patrick Kavanagh Award.

In this collection Aine manages to pick out the unusual from the very usual, making discoveries that will surprise you.

This is a selection of rarities.

A collection of prose and poetry to warm your heart and challenge your mind.

Poems with a spiritual flavour.

A collection of poetry on various subjects and an appreciation on John Betjeman.

Extended Wings 4
A collection of poems from the Rathmines Writers dealing with all manner of subjects from nature to mortice locks.

Eithne Strong writes from her experience as a woman and also of someone who is removed from the ordinariness of day to day hum drum life.

A Swedish poet, Transtromer has kept the feel of the country in his poems.

He retains the essence of the outside without alienating his audience

Macdara Woods iterates a world of hard realities interspersed only occasionally with brief 'consolations'.

This is an adventure story dealing with the exploits of a Scandinavian prince.

It is also a picture of life in the Dark Ages.