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  • In Another World

    Van Morrison & Belfast

    by Gerald Dawe ...
    In Another World is a unique trip through Belfast, mapped into the mystic through the timeless music of Van ‘the Man’ Morrison. The aptly soulful and inventive prose stems from the electric wit of acclaimed poet and fellow Belfast man, Gerald Dawe.Struck by the extraordinary brand of rhythm and blues that was Morrison’s brainchild, Dawe’s book is a celebration of the inspirations that underlie ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A City Imagined

    Belfast Soulscapes

    by Gerald Dawe ...
    A City Imagined is in praise of the city of Belfast. With a clear eye on the truths that history has demonstrated of the northern capital’s sectarian and violent past, the memoir opens in the seemingly stable world of the 1950s, with Dawe enraptured by his mother’s storytelling, which hinted at previous lives lived.Written in his highly regarded wry and lyrical style, Dawe’s memoir sketches the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Looking Through You

    Northern Chronicles

    by Gerald Dawe ...
    Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles, the sequel to renowned Belfast poet and author Gerald Dawe’s critically acclaimed In Another World: Van Morrison and Belfast, is the evocative record of the musical, literary and artistic influences that inspired and forged Dawe’s awakening as a poet, and his career in Irish literature.Taking its bearings from Belfast in the 1960s, The Beatles’ Rubber Soul ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets

    Edited by Gerald Dawe ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets offers a fascinating introduction to Irish poetry from the seventeenth century to the present. Aimed primarily at lovers of poetry, it examines a wide range of poets, including household names, such as Jonathan Swift, Thomas Moore, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Patrick Kavanagh, Eavan Boland and Paul Muldoon. The book is comprised of thirty ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Sound of the Shuttle

    Essays on Cultural Belonging & Protestantism in Northern Ireland

    by Gerald Dawe ...
    The Sound of the Shuttle is an eloquent and compelling selection of essays written over four decades by Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe, exploring the difficult and at times neglected territory of cultural belonging and northern Protestantism. The title, taken from a letter of John Keats during a journey through the north-east in 1818, evokes the lives, now erased from history, of the thousands of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Wrong Country

    Essays on Modern Irish Writing

    by Gerald Dawe ...
    This engaging, personal chronicle by Irish poet Gerald Dawe explores the lives and times of leading Irish writers, including W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and Stewart Parker, alongside lesser-known names from the earlier decades of the twentieth century, such as Ethna Carberry, Alice Milligan, Joseph Campbell and George Reavey. It also portrays the changing cultural backgrounds of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Politic Words

    Writing Women | Writing History

    by Gerald Dawe ...
    Series Book 124 - Reimagining Ireland
    «Politic Words is an invigorating mix of the personal, the political and the poetic. Gerry Dawe flings his net wide. From Eavan Boland’s ‘secret history’ of women to war memoirist Christabel Bielenberg’s luminous prose; from the vaulting ambition of Éilís Dillon’s historical fiction to hunger striker’s Bobby Sands’ favourite poet, the now unsung Ethna Carbery, he takes us on a bracing journey from ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Dreaming of Home

    Seven Irish Writers

    by Gerald Dawe ...
    Series Book 111 - Reimagining Ireland
    «Gerald Dawe observes in the concluding lines of Dreaming of Home that the writers he admires most are those who convey a sense of‹the sheer joy in witnessing the world for its own sake.› Those samewords could apply to Dawe himself. His readings of seven writershere – Sean O’Casey, W.B. Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh,Derek Mahon, Colette Bryce, and Gail McConnell – are animated asmuch by ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Northern Windows/Southern Stars

    Selected Early Essays 1983-1994

    by Gerald Dawe ...
    Series Book 109 - Reimagining Ireland
    Northern Windows/Southern Stars is a valuable, accessible and thought-provoking gathering of essays by the distinguished Irish poet and Professor Emeritus, Gerald Dawe. Re-tracing the issues and questions of poetry and politics in the Ireland of the 1980s and 1990s, the collection provides energetic and unexpected views of one poet’s critical readings, including the work of several overlooked ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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  • On Seamus Heaney

    by Roy Foster ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
    A vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in the Nobel ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry

    Edited by Fran Brearton, Alan Gillis ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry. The Handbook begins with a consideration of Yeats's early work, and the legacy of the 19th century. The broadly chronological areas which follow, covering the period from the 1910s through to the 21st century, allow scope for coverage of key poetic voices in Ireland in their ... Read more

    $131.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

    Edited by Bernard O'Donoghue ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists for decades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has come to be considered one of the most important English language poets in the ... Read more

    $35.29 USD