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NEW TITLES AND REISSUES
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Our Shared Japan: a major new anthology of contemporary Irish poetry
Edited by Irene De Angelis and Joseph Woods, Our Shared Japan is a major new anthology of contemporary Irish poetry, published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Ireland and Japan.
With an Afterword by Seamus Heaney, and Our Shared Japan features work by more than 80 poets who have responded, in a variety of ways, to the many cultural and other connections between the two countries. Included are poems by Paddy Bushe, Francis Harvey, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Sinéad Morrissey, Paul Muldoon, Nuala Nî Dhomhnaill, Julie O'Callaghan and many others.
Some of the poets have visited or spent time in Japan and write from that experience; others respond to a Japan of the imagination, for example adopting or adapting Japanese poetic technique as a means to expand and enrich their own ways of looking at the world.
The result is a surprising and stimulating volume that illuminates two cultures at once.
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New and Selected Poems by Pat Boran
First published in 2005, and reissued now by Dedalus with some minor revisions, New and Selected Poems presents a large selection of work by one of the best-known of the younger Irish poets. Introduced by Dennis O’Driscoll, for whom Boran is “a poet of mystery and fulfilment, of the eternal and numinous no less than the earthly and the everyday”, New and Selected Poems features work from all of his earlier publications as well as a selection of newer work.
“Pat Boran’s poems make magic out of found things, and his metaphors light the dark like Roman candles. He is a master of his language; beyond that, he makes poetry matter to me again.”
—Gerard Donovan
“Pat Boran’s New and Selected Poems will be a revelation to many readers, showing the true scale of his achievement. He writes with exactitude and stark brevity, careful to strip away all the superfluous flourishes, as he equally celebrates and scrutinises the apparently familiar within the rigors of a universal and scientific context.”
—Dermot Bolger
“The lightness of his syntactic touch is masterly”
—Bernard O’Donoghue, The Irish Times
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Winter 2007
The last quarter saw the publication of
— Two new Peppercanisters by Thomas Kinsella
— Mickle Makes Muckle, a selection of poems, mini plays & short prose by German poet
Michael Augustin, translated by Sujata Bhatt
—Affirmation: Selected Poems 1986-2006 by Greek poet Haris Vlavianos,
translated by Mina Kiravanta, with an introduction by Michael Longley
— and a reissue of Michael Smith's translation of Lorca's The Tamarit Poems,
complemented by 36 of the translator's versions of poems from Arabic Andalusia
(click on images for more information)
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APRIL / MAY saw the publication of four new titles
Collected Poems by Francis Harvey
The Mirror Tent by Gerard Smyth
Among These Winters by Mary O'Donoghue
Complicated Pleasures by Billy Ramsell
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