Wake Forest University Press

Poetry Book Society recommendation; Shortlisted for the /Irish Times/ Poetry Now Award
October 2010

ISBN 978-1-930630-54-3

$12.95

Winner of the International Griffin Prize for Poetry

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize

$21.95   ISBN 978-1-930630-53-6

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"Ní Chuilleanáin's narrative drive and ability to ground daily life in a sense of mystery or otherworldliness--to move between various realms of experience--are on full display."  Women's Review of Books, Sept/Oct 2010

2007   206 pages
clothbound
First edition with plain vellum wrapper

Winner of the 2008 Irish Times Poetry Now Award
In choosing Secular Eden as the winner, the judges described the book as "the achievement of several years' work ... with great profundity to the poems in how they explored ideas ... and a real sense of vocation in the collection."

"In poetry, Harry Clifton's Secular Eden makes it clear he is one of the best Irish poets working now."
 Colm Tóibín, The Irish Times

Winner of the International Griffin Prize for Poetry
Short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize

Paperback  ISBN 978-1-930630-52-9 

$12.95    August 2010

"Ní Chuilleanáin's narrative drive and ability to ground daily life in a sense of mystery or otherworldliness--to move between various realms of experience--are on full display."  Women's Review of Books, Sept/Oct 2010

2007   206 pages
paperback
First edition

Winner of the 2008 Irish Times Poetry Now Award

In choosing Secular Eden as the winner, the judges described the book as "the achievement of several years' work ... with great profundity to the poems in how they explored ideas ... and a real sense of vocation in the collection."

"In poetry, Harry Clifton's Secular Eden makes it clear he is one of the best Irish poets working now."
 Colm Tóibín, The Irish Times

1990   365 pages
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"We are only starting to understand the lost generation of Irish poetry, and this splendid volume is a great help" - John Montague, The Irish Times

1993   79 pages
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"I have the greatest liking for Peter Fallon's poetry. It does not filter the world of the small farm for some urban reader; rather it takes him there. It does so without sentimentality, giving us for instance the brute weariness of farm work (Pastorale) as well as the triumph of work well done (The Old Masters). On the whole, Fallon's words move artfully within the lexicon of the rural town; their poetry is in the rightness of naming and describing, the exact ear for the beat and savor of country speech, the honest tuning of the poet's feeling toward his chosen place." Richard Wilbur

2006   64 pages
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Limited, signed, and numbered
First edition with plain vellum wrapper

“Ambitious, tender and lyrically beautiful...” The Irish Times

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
$17.95   ISBN 978-1-930630-47-5

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

2006   64 pages
paperback

“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