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Paperback. Editor(s): Donovan, Stephen; Rubery, Matthew. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551113302
ISBN
9781551113302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.37
€ 54.00

Paperback. Editor(s): Colacurcio, Michael J.; Bresky, Luke. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554811236
ISBN
9781554811236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.51

Hardcover. Surveying the vast expanse of politically charged science fiction, this book posits that the defining dilemma for these tales rests in whether identity and meaning germinate from progressive linear changes or progress or from a continuous return to primitive realities of war, death, and the competition for survival. Editor(s): Hassler, Donald M.; Wilcox, Clyde. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Univ of South Carolina Pr
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570037368
ISBN
9781570037368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.27

Paperback. Editor(s): Birkett, Mary Ellen. Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Modern Language Association of America United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603290197
ISBN
9781603290197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.43

Paperback. Astute analysis of the work of a great Israeli poet through the lens of psychoanalysis, gender, nationalism, and trauma theory Num Pages: 198 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; DSB; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611683554
ISBN
9781611683554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 4. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Four Way Books United States
Number of pages
94
Condition
New
SKU
V9781884800665
ISBN
9781884800665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.64

Hardcover. This is a study of one of the most important poets of the mid 20th-century. This book looks at Devlin's work within the aftermath of the Irish literary revival and Anglo-American and French modernism and then relates it to the work of Devlin's contemporaries and to modernism poets. Num Pages: 192 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900621366
ISBN
9781900621366
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.92

hardcover. Addressed to children, friends and enemies, the living and the dead, musicians, poets and dogs, this title features poems that display an ambition in their scope and tonal range matched by the breadth of their concerns. It has as its central themes - contradiction and strangeness, tension and transformation, the dream world, and the divided self. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 225 x 11. Weight in Grams: 200. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap. As new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031156
ISBN
9780571310890
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 32.00

hardcover. Depicting the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, this book includes poems that are moving and measured, delicate and clear-eyed, and bear witness to the futility of war and the suffering of those left behind. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap. As new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031157
ISBN
9780571325474
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 22.00

paperback. The author is well-known for his Homeric versions, and the Iliad is a presiding presence - both in poems about the Great War and in the range of imagery that gives his twin's death a mythic dimension. In this book, the poems encompass birth as well as death, childhood and age, nature and art, the animal and human worlds, tenderness and violence. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 134 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114. Good clean copy. Covers showing a little shelf wear, otherwise as new
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031159
ISBN
9780224101684
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 18.00

paperback. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, the author acknowledged the importance of the poem to his writing, noting that 'there's one Virgilian journey that has indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas' venture into the underworld. In this book, he brings the ancient poem back to life. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 13. Weight in Grams: 212. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031160
ISBN
9780571327317
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 30.00

hardcover. Presents poetry that is concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and intersecting and spilling over into each other. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 252. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031161
ISBN
9780571305599
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 22.00

hardcover. Offers the essential meaning of the term 'lyric' - a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. This title includes the classic themes of song: lost love, lost wars. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 192. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031163
ISBN
9780571299065
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 15.00

hardcover. A poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso' (Michael Hofmann) and hailed by Seamus Heaney as 'one of the era's true originals', Paul Muldoon seems almost to defy definition in his work. This selection, chosen by the poet himself, will serve new readers as an introduction to his work. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 224 x 26. Weight in Grams: 436. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031164
ISBN
9780571327959
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 35.00

hardcover. Focuses on an outlandish meditation on a failed poem that draws on the vocabulary of entomological forensics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 292. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 'First edition' label on front dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031165
ISBN
9780571269259
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 22.00

hardcover. A major literary event: the first Collected Poems of Carol Ann Duffy (1985-2015) Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1070. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap, v. light shelfwear to dw, otherwise as new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Picador
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031167
ISBN
9781447231431
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 28.00

hardcover. Presents a collection of poems about early life and marriage beside minutely registered perceptions of post-settlement Ireland. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 215. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031168
ISBN
9780571271535
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 78.00

hardcover. The first instalment of Tom Paulin's poem about World War II. Affirming the struggle and memory of a generation upon whom the doors of living memory are now closing, it looks at the relation of art to war and to questions of national identity, the search for peace and for a shared civic culture. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 341. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 'First edition' label on front dw, showing light shelf wear. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031169
ISBN
9780571209156
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 24.00

hardcover. Since his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, the author has been an unmissable writer on the contemporary poetry scene. This title draws on nearly four decades of poetry and translation, updating and expanding upon the Selected Poems 1972-1990. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 388. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031172
ISBN
9780571307982
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 25.00

paperback. Tom Paulin's latest poetry collection is his first offering in five years. The "wind dog" is a broken rainbow; here it serves as a bridge into childhood where the primacy of the ear - "the only true reader" - and the music of words is both demonstrated and celebrated. Series: Faber Poetry. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 120. Very good clean copy. Price sticker back cover, otherwise as new
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031173
ISBN
9780571201686
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 18.00

hardcover. Bilingual edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper and with mylar sleeve
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0031292
ISBN
9780374111199
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 65.00

Paperback. Surveys the Golden Age of English popular theatre: the 1590s, the age of Marlowe and the young Shakespeare. This book describes the staging practices, performance conditions and acting techniques of the period, focusing on five popular dramas that include The Spanish Tragedy", "Mucedorus", "Edward II", "Doctor Faustus" and "Titus Andronicus". Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: AN; DS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415489010
ISBN
9780415489010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.41

hardcover. This volume brings the history of the Zimmern family to English readers. The author not only offers a new solution to the problem of the text's authorship, but examines the chronicle in the context of broader current debates. Num Pages: 232 pages, Includes 13 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3J; DNF; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 153. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780754603429
ISBN
9780754603429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 204.03

hardcover. The third volume of "Letters.." covers years in which Christina Rossetti lost several important family members, including her mother, her brother Dante, and a young nephew, Michael. In the face of her loss, she turned increasingly to religion and wrote works of devotional prose. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BGH; BJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919294
ISBN
9780813919294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.99

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