Poetry
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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 ... -
Irish Street
£14.99Damian Smyth's poetry focuses on a handful of streets in his home town of Downpatrick in Northern Ireland, where he was born in 1962. His other collections are Downpatrick Races (2000), T... -
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 ... -
Lola In Belfast by Pallavi Padma-Uday
£10.00Lola in Belfast is Pallavi's second collection of Poems. Pallavi Padma-Uday is a writer and business historian based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her first poetry collection, Orisons in ... -
Orisons In The Dark by Pallavi Padma – Uday
£10.00Pallavi Padma-Uday is a writer and business historian based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her first poetry collection, Orisons in the Dark, was published by Writers Workshop in 2023. Her writing has 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
£6.50Devouring Saturn, 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, Devouring Saturn... -
Taking Liberties
£12.00From one of Ireland's most important poets, a collection about motherhood at a time of continuous crisis 'The real thing' MICHAEL LONGLEY' Everyone should be reading her' OBSERVER These poems... -
The Castle of Perseverance
£35.00It is perhaps the accidental collaborations that can prove the most imaginative and charming, as in this beautifully conceived artist’s book bringing together the Pulitzer-prizewinning poet Paul Mul... -
The Letters of Seamus Heaney
£40.00Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or the Colmcille beehive hut, or the Mossbawn scullery. At any rate, a hedge surrounds me, the blackbird calls, t... -
The Slain Birds
£12.00**WINNER OF THE 2022 FELTRINELLI INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE ** 'One of the most perfect poets alive. There is something in his work both ancient and modern. I read him as I might check the s... -
Trust the Damage
£11.00In Trust the Damage, her deeply intimate debut poetry collection, Trudie Gorman explores the connection between class, poverty, and illness. Journeying from a council estate in the 90s to the fracture... -
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...