Book Binding Course ‘Printing Presses and Private Collectors’ (advanced) – 14, 15 March 2020

Literary giants Yeats and Heaney are surrounded by a host of other poets – Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Derek Mahon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Eavan Bolan, Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon, to name but a few – in this anthology of the best of Irish poetry. With its roots in the devotional verse of the early Christian church and the long lyric poems of the Irish bards, Irish poetry has a rich and robust tradition both of engagement and self-reflection. It has grappled long with politics, providing the most eloquent response to Ireland’s turbulent history; it has encompassed religion, so much a part of Ireland’s cultural heritage; it has soaked itself in the Irish landscape and Celtic myth and has given an original slant to everyday experience and affairs of the heart. Thematically organized and spanning many centuries, this selection also features a section on Gaelic poetry in translation.

Now available in a unique hand bound version.

Textblock: from an existing hard back publication. New spine lining and stuck on brown leather endbands and red page marker. New marbled endpapers with grey leather hinges.
Binding: mill cover boards and spine board with five raised bands. Cover in brown sheepskin and marbled paper.

• Item weight: 1000 g
• Item dimensions: 220 x 140 x 50 mm
• Everyman’s Library Publication
  ISBN 978-1-85715-103-9