Wake Forest University Press

1994    80 pages
paperback

Winner of the first T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for the outstanding book of poetry published in Britain and Ireland in the previous year.

"Ciaran Carson's First Language is a spectacular collection…If you buy only one poetry book…this year, make sure it's this one." Gerald Dawe, The Irish Times

1989   110 pages 
paperback

"One of the most gifted imaginations in contemporary poetry." Douglas Dunn, Irish Literary Supplement

Essays in Irish Literature 1880-1980  

paperback, 1985

1992   193 pages
paperback
Bilingual; Selected by Paul Auster
Introduction by Mary Ann Caws
Translated by Paul Auster, Stephen Romer, and David Shapiro 

This broadside features the haunting poem "The Octopus," and was made to celebrate with the four-poet tour in the fall of 2011 that coincided with the publication of The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry. Second in a series of four.  In order to make the broadsides available to a wide audience, they are laser-printed on fine linen paper.

AVAILABLE on October 24, 2011, though they may be pre-ordered. Bookclub members, please take no discount.

Signed by the poet
8-1/2" x14"
Used with permission of Bloodaxe Books

This wrenching poem by Rita Ann Higgins has a form that perfectly matches its content. It was created to coincide with the publication of the Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry in the fall of 2011.

AVAILABLE on October 24, 2011, though they may be pre-ordered. Bookclub members, please take no discount.

Signed by the poet
8-1/2" x14"   
Used with permission of Salmon Poetry

 Paperback with flaps and E-book.

 In this new, deeply meditative and wide-ranging collection, Harry Clifton brings his extraordinary poetic and intellectual gifts to bear on the present state of Irish culture. These are both personal and public reflections (on love, marriage, middle age and history) that stake his claim as one of the most significant Irish poets now writing.

 "There are moments when you hold your breath… and you sit up in pure delight… there are a number of poems in this book that will be read as long as any poems are read anywhere…." Colm Tóibín, Irish Times

"The influence of war in Ireland has been perpetual, and Clifton, who has traveled and lived extensively outside of his country, examines his homeland through the lens of one who left but returned to make sense of it “in the name of the lost, the disinherited,/All who never came back from the dead/To tell their story claim their place—”
Valerie Duff-Strautmann,http://www.thecommononline.org

$14.95  ISBN 978-1-930630-60-4   Paperback with flaps  
E-book: http://wfu.tizrapublisher.com/winter-sleep-of-captain-lemass/

October 31, 2012

$12.95    ISBN 978-1-930630-61-1   Paperback

To purchase this e-book, please DO NOT click on the shopping cart, but instead click on this link: http://wfu.tizrapublisher.com/winter-sleep-of-captain-lemass/   price is $9.95 

Individual poems are also available for sale.

Ciaran Carson's inventive take on Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations.