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Vol. 10 No. 2: The Belfast Agreement: Twentieth Anniversary Issue

$39.00
  • Michael Longley on “Songs for Dead Children”
  • Essays on The Good Friday Agreement by Paul Arthur, Patricia Craig, Monica McWilliams, Paul Arthur, John Gray, John Wilson Foster, Edna Longley, Iggy McGovern, Gerard McCarthy, David Park, Jean Bleakney, Carlo Gébler, Anne Devlin, Brice Dickson, Robert McDowell, Ed Moloney, Mathew O’Toole, Jason Gathorne-Hardy, Andy Pollak & Glenn Patterson
  • Roy Foster and Nigel Lewis on Europe’s Tectonic Plates
  • Poems by Tom Mac Intyre, Moya Cannon, Ruth Carr, Harry Clifton, Kerry Hardie, Gerard Smyth & Ciarán O’Rourke 
  • Philip Knox, Jennifer Kerr, Stephen Dornan, Stephen Elliott & Noel Russell on the youthful aftermath of the Agreement
  • Chris Agee’s “Weather Report: Good Friday Week, 1998”
  • Evelyn Conlon, Matt Kirkham, Peter Geoghegan, Natasha Cuddington & Frances Byrne on boundaries, borders & maps
  • Manfred McDowell on the secrets of 64 Myrtlefield Park
  • Art Hughes in praise of Belfast and its writers
  • PLUS: “Writers of Belfast”: A remarkable portfolio of paintings by Neil Shawcross
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Vol. 9 No. 2: Israel, Islam & the West

$39.00
  • Gerard McCarthy on the refugee crisis in Greece
  • An unpublished survivor’s account of Bergen Belsen
  • “A Trial” by Hubert Butler 
  • Writings on Iran, Bosnia and Islam 
  • Avi Shlaim on “Israel and the Arrogance of Power” 
  • Dervla Murphy’s “Hasbara in Action” and John McHugo on Syria
  • A trilingual elegy in Irish, Polish and English
  • Chris Agee on “Troubled Belfast”
  • Ghazels of Hafez
  • Lara Marlowe on Mahmoud Darwish
  • New poems on the Middle East by Seán Lysaght, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ciarán O’Rourke & Cathal Ó Searcaigh
  • PLUS: “I am Belfast”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Mark Cousins
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Vol. 13 No. 1: The Genocide Issue

$39.00

“The Genocide Issue” is a unique and compelling compendium of writing of great variety of the highest contemporary and historical relevance (for obvious reasons) with a likely huge appeal. It is divided into five sections: “Documents”, “Gaza”, “The Balkans”, “The Holocaust”, and “Indigenous Peoples”, with a major translation section “In Other Words” from the Turkish. With an outstanding range of major poets, writers, scholars and journalists from Ireland and Britain, as well as from across the globe, it also tracks the palpable swerve towards new authoritarian and totalitarian norms in nominally democratic countries.

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Balkan Essays

$46.00
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HUBERT BUTLER

 

Butler’s essays do not just give insight into past events, but also into the past perceptions of those events. They are not just the story of one era, but of the self-perception of that era as well. His essays are a kind of time-capsule, and their moral attitude has an everlasting timeless quality.

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Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain

$28.00
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GARRY MACKENZIE

The author, Garry MacKenzie, writes of this book:

“My book-length poem draws on the work of an eighteenth-century Gaelic poem by Duncan Bàn MacIntyre, rendering it into English. Where it does so, this is not to present MacIntyre’s poetry per se to an English-language reader, as is customary with a translation or version. Instead, the sections of Ben Dorain which draw upon MacIntyre’s poem incorporate that earlier work into a whole which is completely new. MacIntyre’s work is always in conversation with (and frequently contradicted by) lines which do not derive from him and which bring in contemporary ideas about ecology, land use, environmentalism, music, mythology, queer theory, and diverse cultural histories not to be found in the Gaelic poem. MacIntyre’s lines are never unfiltered by contemporary thought or commentary. My approach was to create a new, multifaceted, ecological poem, rather than simply to render a Gaelic poem into English so that it is available to a wider readership. For that reason I describe the poem not as a translation or version, but as a creative conversation.”

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Prophetstown

$28.00
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CIARÁN O’ROURKE

 

Finely crafted and ethically charged, Ciarán O’Rourke’s third collection of poetry, Prophetstown, blends lyric power and searching sensitivity in its examination of the conflicts and contradictions of twenty-first-century civilization. O’Rourke casts an unflinching eye over the devastations of recent history, even as he celebrates the capacities and solaces of the poetic vocation itself.

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Vol. 8 No. 2: Heaney

$39.00
  • Four Poems by Seamus Heaney
  • Sven Birkerts and Helen Vendler on the man and the poet
  • A Suite of Obituaries & Global Reminiscences by leading poets and writers in Ireland, Britain and the United States
  • New poems by Kerry Hardie, Michael Coady, Paddy Bushe, Kathleen Jamie, Katie Donovan, Seán Lysaght, Damian Smyth, Ignatius McGovern, John F. Deane, Franics Harvey, Michael Longley, Alan Gillis, Moya Cannon and Harry Clifton
  • President Michael D. Higgins on John Hewitt & Richard Murphy on poetry and terror
  • New writing in Irish from Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Cathal O Searcaigh and others
  • PLUS: “Seamus Justin Heaney 1939-2013”, a unique photographic portfolio by Bobbie Hanvey
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Invisible Woman and Other Stories

$32.00
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SLAVENKA DRAKULIĆ

 

Invisible Woman and Other Stories takes us on an intimate journey of ageing, from the shock of catching a glimpse of ourselves in the mirror as others see us to the actual slipping away of the self. The stories speak of reckonings: with the illness and death of a parent, with the emotional baggage that must be cleared out along with the material remains, with memories and missed opportunities, and with the waning of desire.

 

Shortlisted for the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development Literature Prize 2023. 

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Aa Cled Wi Clouds She Cam

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60 LYRICS FRAE THE CHINESE:Translations in Scots and English

BRIAN HOLTON

Brian Holton is unique in that he can translate directly into Scots from the Chinese. This anthology consists of translations into Scots and English of the first sixty poems of the standard anthology Song Ci Sanbaishou (“300 Sòng Dynasty Song Lyrics”), edited by Zhu Zumou (1924), with a Translator’s Afterword/Owresetter’s Eftirword.

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Kilclief & Other Essays

$36.00
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PATRICIA CRAIG

 

This long-awaited selection of essays and reviews from one of Ireland’s leading critics brings together a wealth of reflection, observation and astute literary comment. It ranges in time from William Carleton to Edna O’Brien, and in subject matter from recent Irish poetry to ghosts, children’s books and MI5.

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Vol. 11 No. 1: The Anthropocene

$39.00

ON THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS

  • Ruth Padel on “A Patch of Moonlight” in India
  • Morten Strøkness offers “A Tourist’s Guide to Norway”
  • Other new essays by Malachi O’Doherty, John Wilson Foster, Muireann Charleton and Niamh Morritt 
  • New poems by Greg Delanty, Moya Cannon & Ciaran O’Rourke

PANDEMIC

  • Chris Agee’s “Secular Prophecies”
  • Robert Alan Jamieson & Alec Finlay on falling ill
  • Amanda Thomson’s “Biding”
  • John Glenday’s “Love”

INTO THE GREAT OUTDOORS

  • Sean Lysaght on the Mayo Wilds
  • Garry Mackenzie & Meg Bateman on Ben Dorain
  • “The Corniche Carriage Clock: A Sequence” by John F. Deane
  • New poems by Chris Preddle, Simon Ó Faoláin & Benjamin Keatinge

MODERN TIMES

  • Gabriel Rosenstock on “The Irish Problem”
  • Four love poems by Matt Kirkham
  • Gerry Cambridge on “The Identitarian Delusion”
  • Chris Benfry & Sven Birkerts on “Serendipity”
  • “Varieties of Islam” by Jacob Agee
  • Sacha Baron Cohen on The Silicon Six
  • New short fiction by Slavenka Drakulić

PORTFOLIO

  • “The Two of Them”, celebrated cartoons by Tisja Kljalović Braić

and many others

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Vol. 9 No. 1: After Heaney

$39.00
  • An uncollected address by Seamus Heaney
  • Jahan Ramazani on Heaney’s Globe & Bernard O’Donoghue on Stepping Stones
  • Gabriel Rosenstock on a poisoned windharp
  • Translations from the Latin of Virgil and Catullus
  • A major interview with Michael Longley
  • Chris Agee on the ethnic basis of Irish poetry
  • Robert Crawford upholds “bardic voice”
  • New poems by Moya Cannon, Ruth Carr, Frank Ormsby and Cathal Ó Searcaigh
  • Fiction by Juliana Roth and Malachy Tallack
  • Plus: “In the Aegean”, a remarkable photographic portfolio on the refugee crisis
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