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A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free State’s first senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that Ireland has yet produced. The present selection includes poems from every period of his life, dealing with all the topics closest to his hear: love, death, old age, ambition, the poet’s craft, and of course the history and destiny of Ireland.
Now available in a unique hand bound version.
Textblock: from an existing hard back publication (ISBN 978-0-571-32174-2). New spine lining and stitched on blue-white endbands. Blue coloured upper edge. New marbled endpapers with blue leather hinges.
Binding: mill cover boards and spine board with five raised bands. Cover in blue Nigerian goat skin and marbled paper
Item weight: 650 g
Item dimensions: 230 x 155 x 35 mm
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.
Often described as the twentieth century’s greatest novel, Ulysses, first published in 1922 and modelled on Homer’s Odyssey, is an account of one day in the life of Dublin, focusing on the humble Leopold Bloom and his sensuous wife, Molly. An earthy story, a virtuoso technical display and a literary revolution all rolled into one, Ulysses is one of the few books everyone has to read.
Daniel Albright’s edition of Yeats’s poems is the most scholarly available. Not only are the poems newly edited to present a close approximation to the ‘sacred book’ Yeats hoped to bequeath to the world, but they are accompanied by detailed explanatory notes and a long introductory essay which help make accessible the work of a poet who pushed imagination to its outer limits yet disciplined his images by confining them to strict lyrical forms.
Now available in a unique hand bound version.
A selection of song lyrics and poems from the long and influential career of one of the most acclaimed and admired poet-songwriters in the world. For more than half a century, Leonard Cohen’s music and poetry have made him an international cult figure, transcending genres and generations. Here is a fascinating cross-section of his work, including such legendary songs as ‘Suzanne’, ‘Sisters of Mercy’, ‘Bird on the Wire’, ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’ and ‘I’m Your Man’ and searingly memorable poems from many collections including Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers and Death of a Lady’s Man. Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the sacred and the secular, the mystical and the sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of remarkable passion, humour and depth.
Now available in a unique hand bound version.
Textblock: from an existing hard back publication. New spine lining and hand sewn on endbands. New marbled endpapers with green leather hinges.
Binding: cover made of archival mill board and spine board with four raised bands. Cover in red goat eather and Italian marbled paper.
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.