Poetry
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100 Poems
£12.99Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this... - Signed
44 Poems on Being with Each Other: A Poetry Unbound Collection
£20.00This celebratory anthology explores human connection through forty-four poems carefully curated by the host of the internationally acclaimed Poetry Unbound podcast. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó ... -
Ash Keys : New Selected Poems
£16.00Published to coincide with his 85th birthday, Ash Keys looks back on the extraordinary career of the last surviving member of the triumvirate of poets that rose out of 1960s Belfast 'A master in an... -
Devotion
£11.50At the heart of Mícheál McCann’s eagerly awaited first collection is ‘Keen for A— ’, a re-imagining of Eileen O’Connell’s heartrending Lament for Art O’Leary. In Devotio... -
GUB by Scott McKendry
£10.99Demons, geese, The Laughing Cow, marching bands, LSD and pistols smuggled home from the USSR. You'll find all these in Scott McKendry's GUB. Rooted in the language of working-class Belfast, and slippi... -
Into The Night That Flies So Fast
£11.00In Into the Night that Flies So Fast, the debut collection of poems from Belfast-based Milena Williamson, the speaker journeys to the small County Tipperary village of Ballyvadlea, to investigate the ... - Signed
Kitchen Hymns
£12.00Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin. The poems in Padraig O Tuama's new collection are a form of hymnody that arise neither from belief nor dev... -
Little Acts of Vigilance by Miriam Gamble
£12.99In Little Acts of Vigilance, the first collection of essays published by The Lifeboat, poet Miriam Gamble attends with precision to that which is often invisible. Inhabiting a space where the ... -
Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire by Dane Holt
£6.50The Lifeboat Press Poetry Pamphlet #14 Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire is a thrilling exploration of masculinity and the possibilities of the lyric. These poems which explore, among other ... -
North (Pre-Order for June 2025)
£14.99This edition of Seamus Heaney’s seminal fourth collection North, reproduced in its elegant first setting and original jacket, marks fifty years since first publication. By conjuring aspects of a ... -
Queering the Green
£15.00“… every poem is a queering of language; every poetry critic is a critic of the queer; every reader of poetry is engaged in a queer act; every performance of poetry is a queer ...
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Saturn Devouring by Simon Costello
£6.50Saturn Devouring, the latest pamphlet by The Lifeboat, is a work of linguistic misdirection. Summoning from the cosmic to ground itself in damp fields and cattle sheds, Saturn Devouring ... -
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Pre order Oct 2025
£40.00Seamus Heaney, Bernard O'Donoghue & Rosie Lavan The definitive edition of Seamus Heaney's poetry, with illuminating critical notes, including uncollected poems and a selection of previously unsee... -
We Play Here by Dawn Watson
£12.99We Play Here is a collection of four poem-stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988, against a background of political turbulence during the Tro...