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General CatalogVona Groarke - Flight and Earlier Poems (clothbound, ltd. ed.)Irish Poetry | Rare & Collectible
2004 112 pages "The obvious spirit of exhilaration in which these poems have been created is matched by excitement in the reader at encountering a voice that has come entirely into its own." Sinead Morrissey, Metre $ 35.00Vona Groarke - Flight and Earlier Poems (paperback)Irish Poetry
2004 112 pages "Groarke excels at looking at subjects from unexpected angles." Sinead Morrissey, Metre $ 11.95Thomas Kinsella - Collected Poems (paperback)Irish Poetry
2006 389 pages "A writer of singular originality and integrity, Thomas Kinsella is essential reading, one of the most vital and important poets of the English language." Floyd Skloot, Sewanee Review $ 18.95Vona Groarke - Juniper Street (clothbound, ltd. ed.)Irish Poetry | Rare & Collectible
2006 64 pages “Ambitious, tender and lyrically beautiful...” The Irish Times $ 35.00Vona Groarke - Juniper Street (paperback)Irish Poetry
2006 64 pages “Juniper Street is a worthy successor to her three previous collections, with its mix of to-the-heart-of-the-matter observations, and melancholic and piercing voices; we will be reading Vona Groarke for a long time to come.” The Irish Book Review $ 11.95Michael Hartnett - Selected and New PoemsIrish Poetry
1994 112 pages "The secret of a Hartnett poem poem is that there is always an idea implied and waiting in the lines." James Liddy, The Bellingham Review $ 9.95Thomas Kinsella - Collected Poems (clothbound, ltd. ed.)Irish Poetry | Rare & Collectible2006 389 pages “Kinsella is one of the finest poets of the last century, in Ireland or out of it.” Justin Quinn, Poetry Review $ 50.00Thomas Kinsella - Peppercanister Poems (1972-1978) paperbackIrish Poetry
1979 159 pages "We don't just overhear Kinsella; we watch him ritualize a process of radical understanding and remaking... Kinsella is a serious poet of invention and honesty." - John D. Engle, Parnassus "Kinsella's poems are direct, immediate, colloquial as park-bench speech and, suddenly, moving." - Richard Tobias, University of Pittsburgh $ 9.95Thomas Kinsella - Poems 1956-1973 (clothbound)Irish Poetry | Rare & Collectible1979 192 pages "A poet like the Irishman Thomas Kinsella, who engages thse worlds ably and bravely, can reach past surface charm and nostalgia to discovery.... [He] is among the true poets, not only of Ireland but among all who write in English in our day." M. L. Rosenthal, New York Times Book Review $ 50.00The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, volume 2Irish Poetry | Anthologies
The second volume in a series of anthologies introducing necessary and unique voices to North American readers. Poetry by Sean Lysaght, Moya Cannon, Thomas McCarthy, John F. Deane, and Irish language poet Maire Mhac an tSaoi. Edited with an introduction by Jefferson Holdridge. January 2010 Praise for the first volume in the Series:"Wake Forest ... has always been a pioneer--almost the pioneer--in introducing new irish poetry to American readers. it will be interesting to see which poets from ireland's standing army the press decides to present next." Poetry Ireland Review
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