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NADYA AISENBERG

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Nadya Aisenberg was writing on the social implications of forgiveness in literature at the time of her sudden death in April 1999. This subject had occupied her for over a decade. Through narrative and poetry, feminism and pacifism, Aisenberg believed that forgiveness was the key to understanding that often elusive mystery that is ourselves.... Read More

From A Mobile Home
NUALA ARCHER

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Reading these poems, one comes to suspect that the image of a truly safe and ennobling nation must be that of a mobile home; intimate, but open, playful, self-aware, and moving. Archer has written its lexicon out of idioms of displaced beings; remapping of boundaries would require a full transformation of English.... more info

The White Beach
LELAND BARDWELL

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The White Beach is the fourth book of poetry from one of Ireland's best-known literary figures - poet, novelist, playwright and short-story writer Leland Bardwell, charting her poetic journey through four decades. Nominated for The Irish Times Literature Prizes 1999.... more info>>>

Wednesday
MARVIN BELL

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Marvin Bell's American reputation rests on fourteen distinguished books of poetry and essays, noted by reviewers for their originality, lucidity, variety, and eloquence. Wednesday is the first book by Marvin Bell to be published outside the United States.... more info>>>

The Old In Rapallo
RORY BRENNAN

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Patrick Kavanagh Award winner, Rory Brennan has worked in education, broadcasting and arts administration and has lived for extended periods in Morocco and Greece. Travel in these and many other places is reflected in the vitality and range of his writing.... more info>>>>>

The Getting of Vellum
CATHERINE BYRON

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Catherine Byron's first collection of poetry Settlements (1985) was hailed as 'a classic of Irish exile'. The Getting of Vellum is inspired by her ongoing creative collaboration with Dublin-based artist and calligrapher Denis Brown. The cross-fertilisation of his inscribed and distressed vellum pieces in his series.... more info>>>>>

Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers
MARY DORCEY

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"A new book by Mary Dorcey is an event first to be celebrated, then to be reckoned with, for we can count on it to effect dramatic changes to our understanding of the way language is to be used and applied. These poems are the work of a canny and dextrous stylist.... Read More

The Exile House
ERLING FRIIS-BAASTAD

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Words set loose in a northern landscape in pursuit of myth: Erling Friis-Baastad's poems search for resonance with the elements. The challenge is one of dislocation; hope lies in petitioning song. The answers that arrive from a nearby mountain range or the opposite shore of a lake are always a surprise, sometimes a shock, suggesting connection just "beyond the reach / of our numb hands.".... Read More

That Fall: New & Selected Poems
PAUL GENEGA

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This is the fourth full-length collection from one of America's award-winning poets and his second title with Salmon. The "fall" of That Fall is really many falls. It is the season, of course, but also the runway approach of an airplane, the setting of the sun, the steady beat of rain. The fall from innocence, from health, from grace.... Read More

The Last Regatta
MAURICE HARMON

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Maurice Harmon's poetry ranges from recreations of an idyllic pastoral world on the Ardgillan estate in north County Dublin to memories of psychological numbing at boarding school to scenes of intellectual and sexual challenges and confusions at University College, Dublin.... Read More

Daughter & Other Poems
JESSIE LENDENNIE

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The long-awaited re-release of Jessie Lendennie's prose poem "Daughter", first published over a decade ago, and accompanied in this new volume by a selection of Lendennie's previously uncollected poems. "Daughter is an ambitious poetic statement. It attempts to get at the initial shadows and regrets which are so formative.... Read More

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