From the celebrated author of A Beautiful Poison comes a new collection of poetry focused on pain, loneliness, depression, suicide, loss, and healing. the flower that went mad is filled with heartaches as well as joy and takes the readers through a journey of the up and the down moments in life. It expresses all the things that many are too afraid to open up about; it is painted with a thousand unsaid emotions at the turn of each page. But it is also about healing and finding one's voice. All this suffering that you go through will not go unnoticed because there is meaning too in chaos.This collection will nurture, allow & gently restore your healing abilities through the emotions that connect with subtle, yet infallible energy within you. Read more

Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. Later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, Yeats produced a vast collection of stories, songs, and poetry of Ireland's historical and legendary past. This compilation includes a vast number of works, pieces that have earned Yeats the arguable rank of the greatest poet of his time. The Collected Poetry of William Butler Yeats includes the following collections: "Lyrical"," The Rose", "The Wind Among The Reeds", "In The Seven Woods", "The Green Helmet and Other Poems", "Responsibilities", "The Wild Swans at Coole", "Michael Robartes and the Dancer", and several other poems. Read more

As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker)--and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Crediting Poetry." Read more

Selected poems from a Nobel laureateIn 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from "The Cure at Troy" to "Death of a Naturalist." It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come. Seamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. No other selection of Heaney’s poems exists that has such a broad range, drawing from the first to the last of his prizewinning collections. Read more

A powerful new collection by the bestselling translator of Beowulf.In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on airThat is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on holdIn the everything flows and steady go of the world.--from "Perch"Seamus Heaney's new collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world and revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a book about origins (not least, the origins of words) and oracles: the places where things start from, the ground of understanding -- whether in Arcadia or Anahorish, the sanctuary at Epidaurus or the Bann valley in County Derry.Electric Light ranges from short takes to conversation poems. The pre-Socratic wisdom that everything flows is held in tension with the elegizing of friends and fellow poets. These gifts of recollection renew the poet's calling to assign things their proper names; once again Heaney can be heard extending his word hoard and roll call in this, his eleventh collection. Read more

***Winner of the 2024 American BookFest International Book Award for Poetry***"Prepare to devour Haltmaier's dazzling new collection in one sitting because you simply. can't. stop. The poet's language is delicious, vivid, and evocative--each poem an unexpected delicacy." -C.M. Black, Editorial Director, Winter Island PressIn Shadows Set to Burn, award-winning poet Linda FlahertyHaltmaier re-awakens us to beauty and wonder even in the midst of life's inevitable heartbreaks. The poet's singular voice, steeped in the joys of the natural world, bewitches with arresting imagery and sly humor as she shares the secrets and overlooked delights that connect us all.Poems of love, loss, grief, joy, mothers, fathers, daughters--they scorch, ignite, and restore in the hands of this poet alchemist. She infuses light into the darkness, transmuting the mundane into the extraordinary "to sing a litany of wonder in the tradition of Billy Collins." (K. Roberts, author of Likeness)Little escapes Haltmaier's light-giving transformation in this, her fourth collection of poetry--from melding with the darkness under a dome of desert stars, to speaking lilac on an early spring walk, to baking her mother's chocolate cake in a kitchen of grief, to whispering a final, imperfect goodbye to a parent. Her words have the power to nourish, heal, and illuminate: "You will return again and again to this resonant collection for the solace of words and wonder--and an appreciation for the 'ordinary divine.'" (M. Fox, author of Arc of Assurances)Also available from the poet: Rolling up the Sky, Winner of the Homebound Poetry Prize, and To the Left of the Sun, Winner of the International Prize for Poetry. Read more

In The Spirit Level, as ever with Seamus Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful. Read more

A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poetOften considered to be "the greatest poet of our age" (The Guardian), Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." He saw poetry as a vocation and credited it with "the power to persuade the vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values." Paul Muldoon wrote that Heaney was "the only poet I can think of who was recognized worldwide as having moral as well as literary authority." Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney began to compile Selected Poems 1988–2013, and although he was unable to complete the project, his choices have been followed here. This volume encapsulates the finest work from Seeing Things (1991) with its lines of loss and revelation; The Spirit Level (1996) where we experience "the poem as ploughshare that turns time / Up and over."; the landmark translation of Beowulf (1999); Electric Light (2001), a book of origins and oracles; and his final collections, District and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2010), which limn the interconnectedness of being, our lifelines to our inherited past. Read more

Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Seamus Heaney's late father. Read more

Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Irish-English bilingual edition This is the first comprehensive critical anthology of modern poetry in Irish with English translations. It forms a sequel to Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella's pioneering anthology, An Duanaire 1600-1900 / Poems of the Dispossessed (1981), but features many more poems in covering the work of 26 poets from the past century. It includes poems by Pádraig Mac Piarais and Liam S. Gógan from the revival period (1893-1939), and a generous selection from the work of Máirtín Ó Direáin, Seán Ó Ríordáin and Máire Mhac an tSaoi, who transformed writing in Irish in the decades following the Second World War, before the Innti poets – Michael Davitt, Liam Ó Muirthile, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Biddy Jenkinson – and others developed new possibilities for poetry in Irish in the 1970s and 80s. It also includes work by more recent poets such as Colm Breathnach, Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, Micheál Ó Cuaig and Áine Ní Ghlinn. The anthology has translations by some of Ireland's most distinguished poets and translators, including Valentine Iremonger, Michael Hartnett, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Bernard O'Donoghue, Maurice Riordan, Peter Sirr, David Wheatley and Mary O'Donoghue, most of them newly commissioned for this project. Many of the poems, including Eoghan Ó Tuairisc's anguished response to the bombing of Hiroshima, 'Aifreann na marbh' [Mass for the dead] have not previously been available in English. In addition to presenting some of the best poetry in Irish written since 1900, the anthology challenges the extent to which writing in Irish has been underrepresented in collections of modern and contemporary Irish poetry. In his introduction and notes, Louis de Paor argues that Irish language poetry should be evaluated according to its own rigorous aesthetic rather than as a subsidiary of the dominant Anglophone tradition of Irish writing. Read more

Poems, 1965-1975 gathers nearly all of the poems from Seamus Heaney's first four collections: Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), and North (1975). Read more

A gothic mystery book set in Ireland during the early 19th century.In the midst of poverty-stricken Ireland, in fall of 1816, Michael Smith abandons his studies at Trinity College to attend to a familial duty. His journey takes him to the isolated and eerie County Wicklow to care for his wealthy and reclusive uncle who lies on his deathbed, guarded within their dilapidated ancestral estate.Disturbing RevelationsAs he steps into his uncle’s haunting estate, Michael stumbles upon chilling secrets of his uncle's past. He encounters disconcerting memories and discovers the mysterious room his uncle obsessively safeguarded during his life. Uncloaking a hidden manuscript and a lifelike portrait within this forbidden chamber unearths disturbing truths about his bloodline.Haunting LegacyThe gloomy ancestral estate is bestowed upon Michael after his uncle's death, leaving him with a baffling note. Trapped between respecting his uncle’s last wish and revealing the haunting truth, he finds himself trespassing deeper into the dark history of the Smith family.Unveiling the Ancestral CurseThe tale morphs into a bewildering maze laden with mysticism, madness, and terrifying revelations. Michael discovers letters and diary entries that account for eerie practices and mysterious rituals leading to a chilling family curse. The curse, surrounding the descendants of the Smith family, seems to announce an inevitable fate of fright and fatality at the spectral ancestor's hands.Intensity of TerrorHaunting apparitions, unsettling unrest, and unimaginable terror draw Michael further into his ancestral past. He unravels a pact made centuries ago, sealing the family bloodline into an eternal dance with horror.Turn of NarrativeA shift in narration brings to light the intricate family dynamics and the tormenting religious and psychological struggles the Smith brothers face. The addition of Juan’s perspective uncovers the malicious manipulation of the Director, reflecting its heartbreaking impact on their lives.Test of EnduranceThe suspenseful odyssey delves into themes of familial duty, inherited guilt, and the terrifying supernatural, climaxing in a cold-hearted examination of greed, deception, and burdensome legacies. Together, Michael and Juan must face malevolent forces that go beyond this world, striving for redemption and respite from their family's harrowing past. Read more

A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the centuryIn a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the significance of the poem to his writing, noting that "there's one Virgilian journey that has indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas's venture into the underworld. The motifs in Book VI have been in my head for years--the golden bough, Charon's barge, the quest to meet the shade of the father."In this new translation, Heaney employs the same deft handling of the original combined with the immediacy of language and sophisticated poetic voice as was on show in his translation of Beowulf, a reimagining which, in the words of James Wood, "created something imperishable and great that is stainless--stainless, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem." Read more

An exact facsimile of the 1933 first edition of W.B. Yeats’s The Winding Stair and Other Poems, a famously beautiful, elegant volume intended as a companion to The Tower—with an introduction and notes by the eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein.This Scribner facsimile edition reproduces exactly the pages of the elegantly planned and designed first edition of The Winding Stair and Other Poems as it first appeared, including a photo of the cover design on which Yeats collaborated. It adds an introduction and notes by celebrated Yeats scholar George Bornstein. Yeats’s longest separate volume of verse, it features sixty-four poems written in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Among them are such masterpieces as “Blood and the Moon,” “Byzantium,” the Coole Park poems, “Vacillation,” and two separately titled long sequences ending with the exquisite lyric “From the ‘Antigone.’” These poems amply justify T. S. Eliot’s contention that Yeats was one of the few poets “whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.” Read more

With this collection, first published in 1975, Heaney located a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland--its people, history, and landscape--and which gave his poems direction, cohesion, and cumulative power. In North, the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly. Read more

"Between my fingers and my thumbThe squat pen rests.I'll dig with it."Selected Poems 1966-1987 assembles the groundbreaking work of the first half of Seamus Heaney's extraordinary career. This edition, arranged by the author himself, includes the seminal early poetry that struck readers with the force of revelation and heralded the arrival of an heir to Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Robert Frost. Helen Vendler called Heaney "a poet of the in-between," and the work collected here dwells in the borderlands dividing the ancient and the contemporary, the mythic and the quotidian. Gathering poetry from his first seven collections, Selected Poems 1966-1987 presents the young man from County Derry, Northern Ireland, who "emerged from a hidden, a buried life" in Death of a Naturalist (1966), with his cherished poems "Digging" and "Mid-term Break"; the poet of conscience "as bleak as he is bright" in "Whatever You Say Say Nothing" and "Singing School"; and the astonishingly gifted, mature craftsman behind Field Work (1979) and Station Island (1984)-an artist uncannily attuned to the "music of what happens," restlessly searching "for images and symbols adequate to our predicament." This volume, together with its companion Selected Poems 1988-2013, allows us to revisit the essential work of one of the great writers of our age through his own compilation. Read more

"bare roots is the one book I read constantly and never get sick of.""I cried reading most of it. I even had to take some breaks. It's just so incredibly relatable.""Absolutely obsessed and inspired.""I feel so seen reading her work; it's very powerful.""WOW. Her writing truly heals."bare roots has consistently been a bestseller in women's poetry since its debut in April of 2017. Readers were originally captivated by Hillery's fiesty, feminine style of poetry and her ability to bear her soul [and trauma] to the world. Published six months before the rise and height of the "Me Too" Movement, Hillery echoes sentiments bravely expressed by many women who decided that enough was enough. She hopes that by sharing her story of trauma and mental illness, she will empower other women to continue to speak up and rise above.[Original description]: "bare roots is a collection of poetry written for anyone that has ever buried parts of themselves away from the world. The book is divided into six parts— Pruning the Damage, Battling the Weeds, The Roses [and the Thorns], The Seedling Shall Blossom, Cultivating Wisdom, and Buds of Hope are delicately crafted segments that touch on the subjects of femininity, love and loss, trauma, mental illness, the search for meaning, and ultimately, how to grow from it all."Some portions of this book contain mature content and may be triggering to some readers. Please check device for compatibility before purchasing. Read more

This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation. Read more

DO YOU LIKE FUNNY IRISH DRINKING TOASTS, IRISH BLESSINGS, IRISH FOLK SAYINGS AND PRAYERS FROM SAINT PATRICK?If you recognize the wisdom of “As you slide down the banisters of life may the splinters never point the wrong way” — this book is for you.Irish pub owner and folklore curator Paddy O’Furniture has collected the best in Irish toasts, blessings and prayers, following in the footsteps of his father, Mick “The Mouth” who was in popular demand as a speaker at weddings, baptisms, gold club awards dinners and pub dedications. Here is one of the best of the Irish Drinking Toasts:”I drink to your health when I'm with youI drink to your health when I'm aloneI drink to your health so oftenI'm starting to worry about my own”You need this book of Irish wisdom. This funny collection about the Irish view on life will make you laugh and smile.Author Paddy O'Furniture includes the best sayings in these chapters:Irish Proverbs About LifeIrish Toasts in the PubIrish Blessings About Saint PatrickIrish Sayings and Proverbs About DrinkingIrish Blessings for Little BabiesIrish Blessings for the DepartedIrish Marriage BlessingsTraditional Irish Blessings for Home and FamilyPaddy O’Furniture has included this book in the series IRISH WISDOM, including the IRISH RECIPES book and IRISH JOKES, also available on Amazon.If you or anyone in your life loves clever Irish sayings, you need to get this book. No other group quite captures the hope, struggle and humor of life like the Irish.This Irish blessings Irish humor is perfect for reading to friends with having a laugh and inspiration by yourself. Get this book in time for St. Patrick’s Day.Don’t Wait Another Second To Laugh Like The Irish. Download Your Copy Now. Read more

“The most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war.” —The Times Literary SupplementSelected Poems 1968–2014 offers forty-six years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who “began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso” (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as “one of the era’s true originals,” Paul Muldoon seems determined to escape definition, yet this volume, compiled by the poet himself, serves as an indispensable introduction to his trademark combination of intellectual hijinks and emotional honesty. Among his many honors are the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Shakespeare Prize “for contributions from English-speaking Europe to the European inheritance.”“Among contemporaries, Paul Muldoon, one of the great poets of the past hundred years, who can be everything in his poems—word-playful, lyrical, hilarious, melancholy. And angry. Only Yeats before him could write with such measured fury.” —Roger Rosenblatt, The New York Times Read more