Matthew Sweeney is one of our best-known poets - with a high profile in both Britain and Ireland - and moves from Cape to Bloodaxe with this collection. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Matthew Sweeney’s final collection brings together poems written during a year of debilitating illness before his death from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018. All his verve and spiky humour... Læs mere
Twelfth collection by leading Irish poet features poems ostensibly about art, artists and filmmaking which are as much portraits of the poet and the difficulties of writing poetry, plus surreal poems on birds and animals.
Eleventh collection by one of the best-known poets of Britain and Ireland: poems haunted by mortality, by other worlds and far-flung places, by visitations and violent events like the Spanish Inquisition.
Negotiating the borders and hinterlands of Central and Eastern Europe - with occasional coracle trips or forays to Antarctica for a round of golf - the homesick flaneur surveys the surrounding... Læs mere
Includes poems that connect and radiate like the spokes of a wheel: haiku, sestinas, poems beginning with a line by somebody else or sparked off by foreign travel, a version of Dante, a... Læs mere
YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING AND WRITING POETRY. Write Poetry - and Get it Published is... Læs mere
A story of a friendship between a young boy, an old man and his pet fox.
Obliquely sinister and wryly engaging, full of fright and grim hilarity, these are rootless poems - unsettled and unsettling, and very far from home. A Poetry Book Society Recommendation.