Poetry & Verse

Mark Nepo / The Way Under the Way (Hardback)

Nothing compares to the sensation of being alive in the company of another. It is God breathing on the embers of our soul. —Mark Nepo, "The Way Under the Way" When we shift from trying to be special to seeking what is special in everything, we...

P. J. Kavanagh / Collected Poems (Hardback)

The sympathies of Vaughan and Traherne, the earth-love of Edward Thomas, the wit of Louis MacNeice, are three of the many currents that run through the verse of P.J. Kavanagh. Seven collections are included in this volume, which traces the poet through...

Anonymous / Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (Hardback)

An illustrated gift book of the famous poem 'Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep' offering a message of comfort and hope to the bereaved     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Helen Gardner (Editor) - The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 (Oxford Books of Verse)

The New Oxford Book of English Verse is now firmly established as a classic anthology of English poetry. Chosen by the distinguished scholar and critic, Dame Helen Gardner, the book makes available in one volume the full range and variety of English...

Johnny Chóil Mhaidhc Ó Coisdealbha - Saothar Saoil - PB - BRAND NEW

Bailiúchán drámaí, filíocht, agallaimh beirte agus amhráin ó pheann JohnnyChóil Mhaidhc tugtha le chéile in aon leabhar amháin.Tá saothar anseo as na leabhair An Tincéara...

Lyn Macdonald ( Editor) - Anthem For Doomed Youth : Poets of the Great War ( HB Slipcased Edition 2000)

Hardcover, slipcased, the pages internally are a pale khaki colour, matching the cover deisign.  Selected and edited by Lyn Macdonald, a wider selection than is often included in similar anthologies. 

Brendan Kennelly (Editor) - The Penguin Book of Irish Verse - PB 1974 (Originally 1970)

    Originally published 1970, this is a Penguin PB reprint 1974, edited and selected by Brendan Kennelly.  IRISH POETRY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES, ( poems in the original Old and Middle Irish are translated here by Frank...

Niall MacMonagle / Lifelines, New and Collected (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Seamus Heaney- Field Work - Faber Modern Classics - 2017PB - ( Originally 1979 )

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to...

Fred Johnston - True North - HB - 1997

Hardcover, published by Salmon Poetry 1997. 

Patrick Chapman - Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights - HB

Hardcover, published by Salmon Press Poetry.  Slight edgewear to the dustjacket, otherwise in very good condition, internally unmarked. 

Michael Gorman - Up She Flew - PB - Poetry - 1991

A 1991 Salmon Poetry collection from the Sligo born poet Michael Gorman.  Includes a compilation of poems from previous works ( Postcards From Galway) - 1980 and Waiting For the Sky to Fall ( 1984)  Light tanning to page block, edgewear to...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice - Twenty One Sonnets - HB

Published by Salmon Press, Clare, 2007. Hardcover , illustrated by Brenda Fitzmaurice.    Condition, these are 2007 editions, and while they were acquired by us in bulk from another bookshop , and have thus not been sold or have signs of use,...

Desmond O'Grady - Tipperary - PB ( Poetry) 1991

Paperback, published by Salmon , 2011. Desmond O'Grady was a Limerick born poet, novelist and translator. The title of this collection - Tipperary, is a reference by the poet to the county's name in Irish Tiobraid Arann meaning the 'fountain of...

Tony O'Dwyer - Waiting For the Mason- PB - BRAND NEW

Published by Salmon Press, July 2026 Mary O’Donnell: “Everyone should carry a copy of Waiting for the Mason as an antidote to despair… The poet elevates one’s sense that being human may, for once, be quite a good...

Jessie Lendennie / Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Salmon Poetry's 2016 celebratory anthology, highlighting its list of Irish, American, British and European poets, all of whom represent the vibrancy of contemporary literature - distinct in style, voice, and geography. "Salmon's unique profile grows from...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice / Poems of Faith and Doubt (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Gabriel Fitzmaurice was born in 1952, in the village of Moyvane, County Kerry, where he taught in the local elementary school. He is the author of more than forty books, including collections of poetry in English and Irish as well as several collections...

Jo Slade / The Painter's House (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Painter's House is Jo Slade's fifth full-length poetry collection. She traces identity through language and the image, from her experience of displacement and difference to a life lived in the presence and practice of art. It is through `seeing' and...

Jo Slade / Cycles and Lost Monkeys (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In her latest collection of poems Jo Slade continues her investigation of displacement and difference and illustrates how these experiences can be transformed through poetry, a transformation that is not so much redemptive, as prophetic. These are...

Michael S. Begnal - Future Blues - PB

Michael S. Begnal's Future Blues is both a progression of and a break with his previous collection, Ancestor Worship. Inasmuch as any poet's work is a continuing narrative defined by nothing more or less than chronology, Future Blues is the collection...

Marck L. Beggs - Catastrophic Chords - PB

Catastrophic Chords is a 2008 poetry collection by American poet and professor Marck L. Beggs. Published by Salmon Poetry, the book explores themes of duality and paradox, split into musical poems about loss and an extended imagined dialogue between...

Drew Blanchard - Winter Dogs - PB - 2011

From Chicago to Moscow, from the Mississippi to Mt. Hood, Drew Blanchard furnishes his landscapes with stories of things people consume (“blackberry pie” and “ice buckets full of Blatz”) and the things that consume them...

Judith Barrington - The Conversation - PB - BRAND NEW

“This is a brilliant technical achievement; it reminds us all that great poetry is both fine thinking and achieved style. The narrator describes and teaches, telling us that death – and death in life – is ‘too late now for that...

Paul Allen - Ground Forces - PB - BRAND NEW

Millicent Borges Accardi - Only More So - PB -BRAND NEW

Only More So is a collection of lyric poems. Sometimes a bridge in a sad song, other times an echo that threatens to develop then fades, the images blend, twist, and entangle one another: a marriage is a song, then it’s a body, and finally a boat...

Peter J. Gloviczki - The Weight of Dandelions - PB - BRAND NEW

Peter Joseph Gloviczki’s the weight of dandelions explores each moment to discover its essence. Believing there is beauty (and humor) in the everyday world, he declares in one poem: “queen-size bed / the dog lets me / sleep there too”...

Niall MacMonagle (Editor) / Lifelines 2 : Letters from famous people about their favourite poem (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Jon Stallworthy / Anthem for Doomed Youth (Coffee Table Book)

Twelve soldier poets of the First World War       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing...

John Betjeman / The Illustrated Summoned by Bells (Coffee Table Book)

This verse autobiography relates the story of the author's younger days set against the places and buildings that were significant in his youth - Highgate, Cornwall, Chelsea, Marlborough, Oxford quads, churches and railway stations...

Afric McGlinchey / Tied to the Wind (Coffee Table Book)

Tied to the Wind is an auto-fictional prose poetry collection. The book portrays a young girl's attempts to tether herself to a life that keeps becoming unfixed, each time her family moves from Ireland to Southern Africa and back again. Her nomadic...

John G. Fahy / The English in Units Poetry Book (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

X.J Kennedy( Editor) - Tygers of Wrath : Poems of Hate, Anger and Invective

Hardcover, illustrated by Michael McCurdy, publsihed byGeorgia UP, 1981  

Thomas F. Walsh / Illustrated Favourite Poems We Learned at School (Coffee Table Book)

Favourite Poems We Learned at School and its companion volumes More Favourite Poems We Learned at School and Favourite Poems We Learned at School as Gaeilge are enduring bestsellers in Ireland. The illustrated edition takes forty of the most popular...

Francis Frith / One Hundred Favourite Poems (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Gaby Morgan / Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year (Hardback)

READ ME was first published in August 1998 to tie in with the National Year of Reading. It was an immediate success and sold over 180,000 copies. We are delighted to be publishing this tenth anniversary edition in the Rhythm and Rhyme month of the...

Brian W. Aldiss / Home Life With Cats (Coffee Table Book)

The introduction to this delightful poetry book, by Desmond Morris, explores the special relationship between writers and cats. Writing being a lonely pursuit, the cat is a perfect companion for the creative spirit. Edward Lear, Isaac Newton, Samuel...

Eleanor Graham / A Puffin Book of Verse (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

Gearóid Denvir (Eagarthóir) - Duanaire an Chéid - Filíocht Gaeilge ón 20ú Céad - HB 2000

Rogha an eagarthóra, Gearóid Denvir, de na dánta is fearr leis ón bhfichiú haois atá sa leabhar seo. Dánta mar ráitis shuntasacha chruthaitheacha iontu féin seachas saothar le filí...

Mary Kennelly - On the Wind and the Singing Tide : Selected Poems - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, publsihed by Salmon Poetry in June 2026.  “Across nearly twenty-five years of writing, Mary Kennelly has crafted poems that reframe the everyday with startling precision and profound empathy. This selected collection...

Mark Ward - Real Estate - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, published by Salmon Poetry, May 2026.  The poet's second collection. ''This collection wonders how to successfully create your days when the ground has given way, delving into the surreal through grief, loss, and heartbreak...

Robin Milner - Gulland / Selected Poems: Yevtushenko (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

Eileen Acheson / I Wonder (Large Paperback)

In her lyrics, Acheson celebrates life: her personal experience embeds itself in Nature. She honors sod and rivers, branches and trees. Colors–purples, yellows, and brown–are her birthright.   This book is second hand, and while you may...

Sean O'Connor / Fragmentation (Large Paperback)

Winner of the 2022 HSA Merit Book Award for Best Haibun Book. Fragmentation is a series of meditations on dementia, and the dynamics of memory. Written in the Japanese forms of haibun, haiku and zuihitsu, by the author of Let Silence Speak and Even The...

Peter Porter / A Porter Selected (Large Paperback)

This selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Published by Oxford Poets.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get...

Rainer Maria Rilke - Sonnets to Orpheus - Dual Language Text - HB

From the library of the late writer Seamus Deane, and with his signature to teh title page, no other marks or damage noted.  This reprint published by Hogarth Press UK, translations of Rilke'e work with facing original German language text on the...

Mike Garry / Mancunian Meander (Large Paperback)

Fourteen outstanding poems are contained in this acclaimed anthology, including Manchester Haiku ~ which was short listed for the Poem for Manchester Competition. A Mancunian rhythmic meandering search for the souls of the city. A peep from behind net...

Alexander Pope / Essay on Man and Other Poems (Large Paperback)

Considered the preeminent verse satirist in English, Alexander Pope (1688-1744) brought wide learning, devastating wit and masterly technique to his poems. Models of clarity and control, they exemplified the classical poetics of the Augustan age.This...

Louis Mulcahy / Clogher Quartet : Book One (Large Paperback)

Mulcahy, Louis. The Clogher - Book One. First Edition. Dingle, An Sagart, 2014. Octavo. 81 pages, PB.  Louis Mulcahy is an award-winning potter and ceramic sculptor who has recently turned his hand to poetry. He has read at several festivals and...

Brenda Shaughnessy / Interior with Sudden Joy: Poems(Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Moira O'Neill - Songs of the Glens of Antrim - HB - 1906

A small format hardcover, with a very attractive cover , lacks presumed(?) original dustjacket, published by William Blackwood  (this being the 12th impression/ reprint) so obviously a popular title , 1906.  These are not folk 'songs', but...

Michael Rosen / Nation's Favourite Poems of Remembrance (Large Paperback)

Not Marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn And broils root out the...

Billy Ramsell - Render - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback, brand new, published by Banshee Press, May 2026.    My verses stretch and hesitate,scale their rickety trellises.My fruit comes rust-red, grudging. Render plunges the reader into the vibrant setting of Barcelona in the second half of...