Poetry & Verse

James N Healy - The Mercier Book of Old Irish Street Ballads - Volume 3 : The People at Play - PB -1969

Paperback, published by Mercier Press, Cork, 1969.  A standalone selection of political and historical themed street ballads and songs, volume 3 of a projected 7 book series. Songs on weddings,...

Michael Harrison / The Oxford Book of Story Poems (Coffee Table Book)

Dragons, castles and knights; mermaids,witches and magicians; ships on the high seas and journeys into mystery. Every pom tells a story in this wonderful book of poetry for children. There are short...

Shel Silverstein / Light in the Attic (Coffee Table Book)

From New York Times bestselling author Shel Silverstein, the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, comes an imaginative book of poems...

Green and Pleasant Land: Poetry of the English Countryside (Coffee Table Book)

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John Montague - Poisoned Lands and Other Poems - HB - SIGNED - 1961

Hardcover, published by MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1961.  A slim grey cloth hardcover in a plain black and red lettered dustjacket. Signed by the poet, in delicate ink, and dated sept '61. On the same...

T. S. Eliot / Prufrock and Other Observations

Included in Prufrock and Other Observations are the following poems: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Portrait of a Lady Preludes Rhapsody on a Windy Night Morning at the Window The Boston Evening...

Elizabeth Jennings / Selected Poems

"Selected Poems" draws on all the books Elizabeth Jennings published before Growing-Points. It represents the poet's own distillation of the first two decades of her writing - the poems which...

Will Harris / Rendang

"A startlingly radical and surreal poetic journey, RENDANG takes the reader from West Sumatra to pzlanet Mongo via Gray's Inn Road, aligting on Indonesian artefacts, gentrification, and citizenry...

Holly Pester / Comic Timing

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection Comic Timing , Holly Pester's extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working as a radical and...

Christopher Cahill / Gather 'Round Me (Hardback)

Drawing on work published and shared from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, an anthology presents the best of Irish popular poetry, found in newspapers, heard in pubs, or scribbled down in...

Daisy Goodwin / 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life (Hardback)

Poetry for the Bridget Jones generation – an antidote to the stresses of modern life. Prozac has side effects, drink gives you hangovers, therapy's too expensive; for a quick and effective relief for...

My Little Rhyme and Verse Treasury (Hardback)

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Clement Clarke Moore / The Night Before Christmas and Other Poems (Hardback)

Enjoy the classic 'The Night Before Christmas' and selection of other wonderful winter poems in this elegant hardback collection, complete with gilded page edges and full-colour illustrations. This...

Meena Kandasamy / The Book Of Desire (Hardback)

The Book of Desire is the award-winning (and Women's Prize-shortlisted) writer Meena Kandasamy's luminous translation of the Kamattu-p-pal, a 2000-year-old song of love and pleasure and the third...

Mark Nepo / The Way Under the Way (Hardback)

Nothing compares to the sensation of being alive in the company of another. It is God breathing on the embers of our soul. —Mark Nepo, "The Way Under the Way" When we shift from trying to be special...

P. J. Kavanagh / Collected Poems (Hardback)

The sympathies of Vaughan and Traherne, the earth-love of Edward Thomas, the wit of Louis MacNeice, are three of the many currents that run through the verse of P.J. Kavanagh. Seven collections are...

Anonymous / Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (Hardback)

An illustrated gift book of the famous poem 'Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep' offering a message of comfort and hope to the bereaved     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Helen Gardner (Editor) - The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 (Oxford Books of Verse)

The New Oxford Book of English Verse is now firmly established as a classic anthology of English poetry. Chosen by the distinguished scholar and critic, Dame Helen Gardner, the book makes available...

Johnny Chóil Mhaidhc Ó Coisdealbha - Saothar Saoil - PB - BRAND NEW

Bailiúchán drámaí, filíocht, agallaimh beirte agus amhráin ó pheann JohnnyChóil Mhaidhc tugtha le chéile in aon leabhar amháin.Tá saothar anseo as na leabhair An Tincéara Buí, Buille Faoi Thuairim...

Lyn Macdonald ( Editor) - Anthem For Doomed Youth : Poets of the Great War ( HB Slipcased Edition 2000)

Hardcover, slipcased, the pages internally are a pale khaki colour, matching the cover deisign.  Selected and edited by Lyn Macdonald, a wider selection than is often included in similar anthologies. 

Brendan Kennelly (Editor) - The Penguin Book of Irish Verse - PB 1974 (Originally 1970)

    Originally published 1970, this is a Penguin PB reprint 1974, edited and selected by Brendan Kennelly.  IRISH POETRY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES, ( poems in the original Old and Middle Irish are...

Niall MacMonagle / Lifelines, New and Collected (Coffee Table Book)

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Seamus Heaney- Field Work - Faber Modern Classics - 2017PB - ( Originally 1979 )

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individual's...

Fred Johnston - True North - HB - 1997

Hardcover, published by Salmon Poetry 1997. 

Patrick Chapman - Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights - HB

Hardcover, published by Salmon Press Poetry.  Slight edgewear to the dustjacket, otherwise in very good condition, internally unmarked. 

Michael Gorman - Up She Flew - PB - Poetry - 1991

A 1991 Salmon Poetry collection from the Sligo born poet Michael Gorman.  Includes a compilation of poems from previous works ( Postcards From Galway) - 1980 and Waiting For the Sky to Fall (...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice - Twenty One Sonnets - HB

Published by Salmon Press, Clare, 2007. Hardcover , illustrated by Brenda Fitzmaurice.    Condition, these are 2007 editions, and while they were acquired by us in bulk from another bookshop , and...

Desmond O'Grady - Tipperary - PB ( Poetry) 1991

Paperback, published by Salmon , 2011. Desmond O'Grady was a Limerick born poet, novelist and translator. The title of this collection - Tipperary, is a reference by the poet to the county's name in...

Tony O'Dwyer - Waiting For the Mason- PB - BRAND NEW

Published by Salmon Press, July 2026 Mary O’Donnell: “Everyone should carry a copy of Waiting for the Mason as an antidote to despair… The poet elevates one’s sense that being human may, for once, be...

Jessie Lendennie / Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Salmon Poetry's 2016 celebratory anthology, highlighting its list of Irish, American, British and European poets, all of whom represent the vibrancy of contemporary literature - distinct in style,...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice / Poems of Faith and Doubt (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Gabriel Fitzmaurice was born in 1952, in the village of Moyvane, County Kerry, where he taught in the local elementary school. He is the author of more than forty books, including collections of...

Jo Slade / The Painter's House (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Painter's House is Jo Slade's fifth full-length poetry collection. She traces identity through language and the image, from her experience of displacement and difference to a life lived in the...

Jo Slade / Cycles and Lost Monkeys (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In her latest collection of poems Jo Slade continues her investigation of displacement and difference and illustrates how these experiences can be transformed through poetry, a transformation that is...

Michael S. Begnal - Future Blues - PB

Michael S. Begnal's Future Blues is both a progression of and a break with his previous collection, Ancestor Worship. Inasmuch as any poet's work is a continuing narrative defined by nothing more or...

Marck L. Beggs - Catastrophic Chords - PB

Catastrophic Chords is a 2008 poetry collection by American poet and professor Marck L. Beggs. Published by Salmon Poetry, the book explores themes of duality and paradox, split into musical poems...

Drew Blanchard - Winter Dogs - PB - 2011

From Chicago to Moscow, from the Mississippi to Mt. Hood, Drew Blanchard furnishes his landscapes with stories of things people consume (“blackberry pie” and “ice buckets full of Blatz”) and the...

Judith Barrington - The Conversation - PB - BRAND NEW

“This is a brilliant technical achievement; it reminds us all that great poetry is both fine thinking and achieved style. The narrator describes and teaches, telling us that death – and death in life...

Paul Allen - Ground Forces - PB - BRAND NEW

Millicent Borges Accardi - Only More So - PB -BRAND NEW

Only More So is a collection of lyric poems. Sometimes a bridge in a sad song, other times an echo that threatens to develop then fades, the images blend, twist, and entangle one another: a marriage...

Peter J. Gloviczki - The Weight of Dandelions - PB - BRAND NEW

Peter Joseph Gloviczki’s the weight of dandelions explores each moment to discover its essence. Believing there is beauty (and humor) in the everyday world, he declares in one poem: “queen-size bed /...

Niall MacMonagle (Editor) / Lifelines 2 : Letters from famous people about their favourite poem (Coffee Table Book)

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Jon Stallworthy / Anthem for Doomed Youth (Coffee Table Book)

Twelve soldier poets of the First World War <

John Betjeman / The Illustrated Summoned by Bells (Coffee Table Book)

This verse autobiography relates the stor

Afric McGlinchey / Tied to the Wind (Coffee Table Book)

Tied to

John G. Fahy / The English in Units Poetry Book (Coffee Table Book)

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X.J Kennedy( Editor) - Tygers of Wrath : Poems of Hate, Anger and Invective

Hardcover, illustrated by Michael McCurdy, publsihed byGeorgia UP, 1981  

Thomas F. Walsh / Illustrated Favourite Poems We Learned at School (Coffee Table Book)

Favourite Poems We Learned at School and its companion volumes More Favourite Poems We Learned at School and Favourite Poems We Learned at School as Gaeilge are enduring bestsellers in Ireland. The...

Francis Frith / One Hundred Favourite Poems (Hardback)

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Gaby Morgan / Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year (Hardback)

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Brian W. Aldiss / Home Life With Cats (Coffee Table Book)

The introduction to this delightful poetry book, by Desmond Morris, explores the special relationship between writers and cats. Writing being a lonely pursuit, the cat is a perfect companion for the...

Eleanor Graham / A Puffin Book of Verse (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

Gearóid Denvir (Eagarthóir) - Duanaire an Chéid - Filíocht Gaeilge ón 20ú Céad - HB 2000

Rogha an eagarthóra, Gearóid Denvir, de na dánta is fearr leis ón bhfichiú haois atá sa leabhar seo. Dánta mar ráitis shuntasacha chruthaitheacha iontu féin seachas saothar le filí faoi leith a...