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Daddy Issues

$34.00
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DINO PEŠUT

 

Croatia’s Groundbreaking Gay Novel.

 

“I receive the news of my father’s grave illness with almost complete indifference. I’m finding it mildly annoying, like road construction… He called me just briefly; he doesn’t want to bother me too much. I’m at work right now. I hang up. I’m furious at my father’s potentially terminal illness. I work at the reception desk of an okay hotel… My job is not demanding—often it’s boring, but it keeps my curiosity alive. I especially like working the evening shifts and figuring out who is sleeping with whom. At night, I get to read a lot. Secretly, I write poetry.”

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine

$32.00
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AVI SHLAIM

In this book Avi Shlaim places Israel’s policy towards the Gaza Strip under an uncompromising lens. He argues that recurrent attacks – what Israeli generals chillingly call “mowing the lawn” – are the inevitable result of Zionist settler colonialism whose basic objective is the elimination of the native population. In this war, however, Israel has gone beyond land-grabbing and ethnic cleansing to commit the crime of all crimes – genocide.

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2024.

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The Story of a Man Who Collapsed Into His Notebook

$32.00
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IVANA SAJKO

 

The Story of a Man Who Collapsed Into His Notebook is about departures, childhood, the end of a relationship and the vanishing possibility in today’s world of fleeing to a better place. Written in the first person, each chapter a single sentence, the novel is an internal soliloquy of self-examination, an excavation of a life punctuated by upheaval and loss, hope and disillusionment, ambition and failure.

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Theory of Sorrow

$32.00
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SLAVENKA DRAKULIĆ

 

It is 1914, the eve of the First World War. Mileva Einstein has just arrived in Berlin with her two young sons to join her husband, the most celebrated scientist of the 20th century, Albert Einstein. He has finally found a university position worthy of his talents.

And then Mileva then receives a letter from him outlining “Conditions” he expects her to uphold in order to continue their relationship, and her already difficult life is completely upended.

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Invisible Woman and Other Stories

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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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Sappho: Songs and Poems

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CHRIS PREDDLE

 

Here are Sappho’s songs and poems as English poems, all her famous pieces, all the fragments that can make connected sense, and all the discoveries of 2004 and 2014. These translations set out to be good English poetry first and foremost, and succeed well beyond other current versions. They have been made directly from Sappho’s Greek, by a poet with three collections to his credit, and are relatively close to the Greek. Each piece has a concise footnote that explains references and allusions, and suggests critical appreciation. A substantial Afterword says much more about Sappho’s themes, her art and style, and her historical setting.

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Phantom Gang

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CIARÁN O’ROURKE

 

Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2023

 

With lyric grace and meditative clarity, Phantom Gang offers a daring dissection of civilizational violence in a variety of contexts – from the intimate atavisms and inequalities of Irish history to the insidious growth of the global Big Tech economy in the present day – alongside deep, sensually delicate explorations of broken love and salvaged memories.

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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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Old Istanbul & Other Essays

$30.00
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GERARD McCARTHY

 

This is the first book of essays by a major new Irish non-fiction writer from the West of Ireland, comparable to the celebrated Kilkenny essayist Hubert Butler first published by The Lilliput Press and subsequently widely acclaimed. McCarthy’s writing is no less distinguished than Butler’s.

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Trump Rant

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CHRIS AGEE

 

Caustically humorous and polemically compulsive, Trump Rant is a work of meticulous political portraiture: a deep-delving and epoch-spanning investigation into the nature of power in American life, made luminous by Chris Agee’s nuanced, exploratory understanding of authoritarian drift and thwarted democratic aspiration in a number of world-historical contexts, from Belfast to the Balkans to the formerly Confederate South. Free-roaming in its breadth of reference and tonal range, the Rant is at once viscerally personal and unsettlingly resonant, infused throughout with an almost hypnotic sense of scale, largesse, and historical moment.

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Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain

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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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Blue Sandbar Moon

$22.00
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CHRIS AGEE

 

A decade after Next to Nothing, Chris Agee’s critically acclaimed and achingly powerful collection of poems in memory of his daughter Miriam, Blue Sandbar Moon explores with delicate precision the emotional and spiritual landscape of a life sustained in “the aftermath of aftermath.” Consisting mainly of 174 untitled, interconnected short poems, the collection evolves with technical grace and meditative clarity to present a holistic and searching vision of worlds in motion – both public and private, natural and imagined, the seen and the sensed.

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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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Vol. 12 No. 2: Scotland

$39.00

Ten years after the Independence Referendum, Irish Pages asks diverse Scottish writers of distinction – established, mid-career and new – to think about their country, and take stock of the current state of its culture and polity, language and literature, ecology and environment, while a specially curated selection of Scotland’s emerging poets will offer a younger perspective. How will Scotland fare in an era of momentous and unpredictable political change? Stands Scotland where it did?

Co-edited by Kathleen Jamie and Don Paterson.

 

  • Essays by Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Neal Ascherson, Dougie Strang, Colin Bramwell, Kate Molleson, David Greig, Margaret Elphinstone, Peter Mackay, Rosemary Goring, Jenny Lindsay, Stuart Kelly, James Campbell, James Robertson, Fraser MacDonald, Catriona McAra, Amanda Thomson, David Wheatley & Niall Campbell.
  • New poems edited by Niall Campbell: Marjorie Lotfi, Roshni Gallagher, Taylor Strickland, Sam Tongue, Michael Grieve, Medha Singh, Colin Bramwell, Nuala Watt, Tarn MacArthur, Tim Tim Cheng, Patrick Romero McCafferty, Alycia Pirmohamed, Iona Lee, Patrick James Errington, Harry Ledgerwood, Siún Carden & Will Barnard.
  • New prose and poetry from Brian Holton, Niall O’Gallagher, David Kinloch, David Wheatley, Rob McClure, Ryan Van Winkle, Morag Smith, Finola Scott, Alec Finlay & Ken Cockburn.
  • From The Scottish Archive: “Scottish Culture and the End of Britain” (2002) by Angus Calder
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