Wake Forest University Press

1978   63 pages
paperback

"One can only set up against [Montague] the great love poems: Chaucer's superb lyric, the most formidable of Shakespeare's Sonnets and a scattering from other Elizabethans and Cavaliers, together with a few poems each from Burns, Byron, Shelley, Landor, Browning, Meredith and Yeats.… From this time on, whatever else he may write, John Montague's voice will always be raised in the ranks of the great poets of our literature." Robin Skelton, Malahat Review

1984   84 pages
paperback
Rare & collectible

"Montague's Rough Field is a remarkable primer for those who would truly understand the division of Ireland today." James Coleman, The Compass

"John Montague's The Rough Field is a kind of 'state of the nation' poem, built up of visions and glimpses of locality, legend, and history, and as such it is astonishingly successful; moving, too, and as soundly crafted as the rosewood fiddle which seems to play with mourning sweetness in the margins." - John Bayley, The New York Review

1975   64 pages
Rare & collectible first edition

A Slow Dance was the first volume published by Wake Forest University Press, a joint publication with The Dolmen Press and Oxford University Press.

1987   64 pages
paperback
Rare and collectible

1980   48 pages
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Rare and collectible first edition with wrapped jacket

Why Brownlee Left, first published when Paul Muldoon was 29 years old, helped introduce the young poet to American readers. Many books later, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet is one of the most recognized names in contemporary poetry.

2001  216 pages 
clothbound

Shortlisted for the Irish Times Literature Prize in Poetry, 2001

"Where should one begin to impress the importance of Murphy for anglophone poetry in general? ... With the publication of this book the time has come to instate Richard Murphy as one of the most important Irish poets of the last century." Sewanee Review

2001   216 pages
paperback

Shortlisted for the Irish Times Literature Prize in Poetry, 2001

"... [He has] a Yeats-like mastery over theme and poetic form as the way and the means for transforming personal experience into 'the artifice of eternity.'... Murphy's poems register with a cumulative weight and density approaching the monolithic. This publication of his Collected Poems begins to give this poet long-deserved recognition." Boston Review

1989   84 pages
clothbound

"Reading, one enters an exotic world…. Murphy's writing renders it with vivid clarity, and agile nuances of tone…."  Andrew Waterman, PN Review

1989   84 pages
paperback 

"[A] taste does not do justice to this mounting pleasures, no pun intended, of this handsomely produced book." David Gancheroff, The Jerusalem Post

1985   190 pages
clothbound
First edition, rare and collectible

"A masterly production by any standard, The Price of Stone is a major event in Anglo-Irish poetry, one whose significance extends well beyond this island.... A connoisseur in selecting verbal materials, a craftsman in assembling, Murphy proves himself to be an accomplished poetic architect as well." Joseph Sendry, Irish University Review