Wake Forest University Press

1993   160 pages
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In Irish, with translations by thirteen of Ireland's leading poets

"[T]he branching-out, or shape-shifting, from Gaelic myth or folk-song to some less romantic or quirkier emblem of the present, is a constant resource of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's poetry; and it's one of the ways she has rescued the Irish language from its association with Gaelic League pieties or the pedantries of the past." Times Literary Supplement

2005   80 pages 
clothbound first edition with plain vellum wrapper
Limited, signed, & numbered

Short-listed for the Irish Times Poetry Now Prize

"The Irish poet Conor O'Callaghan ought to have more of a reputation here: few American poets his age (he is thirty-eight) bring to the cozy matter of domesticity so much vigor and readiness. ...The house-of-mirrors deceits and self-deceits of estranged lovers here receive full, impressive representation. ..." Poetry

2005   80 pages
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Short-listed for the Irish Times Poetry Now Prize

"Fiction is good at producing ... darkness-tinged satisfactions." Chris Jennings, Books in Canada

2000   96 pages
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"Seatown is deft, intelligent, a masterpiece of moody atmospherics. O'Callaghan has painstakingly assembled a faultless body of poems that haunt and persist." Sinéad Morrissey, PN Review

2000   96 pages
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"O'Callaghan's poetry is marvellously his own. … [Its] bewitching obliquity … obviates neat conclusions. What is evident from Seatown and its predecessor is that Conor O'Callaghan is a gifted poet." Stephen Knight, The Literary Supplement

2005   96 pages
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"...Sirr is at the center of contemporary Irish poetry." Mary-Sherman Willis, Poet Lore

October 2008   300 pages
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Selected and with an introduction by Chris Agee

"Wake Forest University Press continues its impressive dedication to Irish poetry ... with The New North: Contemporary Poetry from Northern Ireland. ...[T]he poems and poets offer an insightful, lyrical look into the psyche of 21st-century Northern Ireland." Irish America Magazine, Feb./March2009

This groundbreaking anthology introduces readers to the surprising new voices of 15 younger poets, who “are much more likely to be interested in new technology, ecology, Eastern Europe or bilingualism, than in any expected manifestation of ‘the Northern issue’ … It is indeed the poetry of a new North.” (Chris Agee, from the Introduction). Produced in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Arts.
 

2005   232 pages   
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Edited and with an introduction by Jefferson Holdridge

"A superb introduction to contemporary Irish poetry..." Wisconsin Bookwatch

Poetry by Harry Clifton, Dennis O'Driscoll, David Wheatley, Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O'Reilly

1999   314 pages  
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Selected and edited by Peggy O'Brien

"Beautifully produced by Wake Forest University Press, with useful explanatory and biographical notes, this collection is now the single best introduction to the kind of writing that is shaping, and being shaped by, the new Ireland. It is at once reasonably comprehensive, enlighteningly delightful, and at times deeply disturbing."    Kieran Quinlan, World Literature Today