Seamus Smith (43 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 74 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.19 inches. In Stock. McArdle, Seamus (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Soft Covers. Condition: Good. Golf circuit Special edition 1987. 72 pp. Illustrated.

Paperback. Condition: New. Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative conversations that have transformed the studyof islands, coasts and waterways. It journeys from the Shetlands to Cornwall, from theAran Islands to the coast of Yorkshire, tracing the cultures of diverse zones through someof the best in contemporary writing about place and people.This collection gathers poetry, prose and visual art in clusters grouped around the Irishand British archipelago, with contributions from an array of significant artists. It includesnewly commissioned work as well as an interview between Andrew McNeillie andRobert Macfarlane on the development of Archipelago across the years.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 51 pp with Poetry D-Day programme laid in clean and sound a little wear to corners.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Fall 1999. 120 pages. Features an excerpt from Seamus Heaney's "The Cure of Troy" along with poems by Les Murray, Gary Fincke, Lynne Doyle and others. Includes photographs by W. Eugene Smith, Paul D'Amato, and Steven Smith and two stories by William Maxwell. A clean very near fine copy in wrappers. …

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 299 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Colour photographs throughout. Signed with dedication from the author on front free endpaper. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative conversations that have transformed the studyof islands, coasts and waterways. It journeys from the Shetlands to Cornwall, from theAran Islands to the coast of Yorkshire, tracing the cultures of diverse zones through someof the best in contemporary writing about place and people.This collection gathers poetry, prose and visual art in clusters grouped around the Irishand British archipelago, with contributions from an array of significant artists. It includesnewly commissioned work as well as an interview between Andrew McNeillie andRobert Macfarlane on the development of Archipelago across the years.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 84pp. Glossy perfectbound wrappers. Text block edges with a touch of foxing, wrappers lightly creased, spine slightly rubbed, about near fine. Contains the first appearance of two poems by Seamus Heaney ("A Dream of Jealousy" and "Hiatus"). Also prints "Scenes from the Martyrdom of St. Eulalia" (a four-page poem) by Federico Garcia Lorca; additional contributions by Edward Lucie-Smith, R.S. Thomas, Gavin Ewart and more.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. No. 7. 84pp. Glossy perfectbound wrappers. Fine. Contains the first appearance of two poems by Seamus Heaney ("A Dream of Jealousy" and "Hiatus"). Also prints "Scenes from the Martyrdom of St. Eulalia," a four-page poem by Federico García Lorca, and contributions by Edward Lucie-Smith, R. S. Thomas, Gavin Ewart and others. Publisher's ad laid in. *Brandes & Durkan* C234.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. Edited by Jeni Couzyn. Octavo. 51pp. Glossy black wrappers printed in red. A fine copy. Trade issue. The introduction states: "The twelve poems in this book which appear in print for the first time were specially commissioned for the Camden Festival, 1970." Contains the first book appearance of twelve poems, by twelve different poets, including Ted Hughes ("Apple Tragedy" [Sagar & Tabor B46a.2]), Seamus Heaney ("Bye-Child" [Brandes & Durkan B6a]), Stevie Smith, George MacBeth, Peter Redgrove, Adrian Henri, Edward Lucie-Smith, Tom Picard, Michael Hamburger, Lee Harwood, Jon Silkin and William Plomer.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Oblong octavo. 80pp. Illustrated wrappers. Tiny creases on cover, sunned spine with a small tear at the foot, very good. Contributions by Irish poets, including: Seamus Heaney, Frank Ormsby, Seamus Deane, Eavan Boland, John Montague, Harry Clifton, Tom Paulin and Ewart Milne; additional contributions by Glen Cavaliero, Gavin Ewart, Iain Crichton Smith, Jon Silkin and more. Subscription slip laid in.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Oblong octavo. 80pp. Illustrated wrappers. Covers lightly creased with a few tiny spots, near fine. Contributions by Irish poets, including: Seamus Heaney, Frank Ormsby, Seamus Deane, Eavan Boland, John Montague, Harry Clifton, Tom Paulin and Ewart Milne; additional contributions by Glen Cavaliero, Gavin Ewart, Iain Crichton Smith, Jon Silkin and more.…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition Thus. 8vo. pp 436. Large format paperback. ISBN: 0876855761 Fine.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 96pp, white card covers. A very clean, tight copy. Poems, including a passage from Beowulf translated by Heaney, and prose including Feinstein on Marina Tsvetayena.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 305 pages. Illustrated. 290x200mm. Original publisher's green cloth, spine lettered gilt, with pictorial unclipped dust jacket. *This copy of the first edition is signed and inscribed by the Christy O'Connor on the front free endpaper.* A fine copy without any library stamps or other markings. ***WEIGHT OVER 1.3 KG. EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGE WILL BE REQUESTED FOR DELIVERIES OUTSIDE OF IRELAND AND UK ***. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Inscribed inside 'Keep Swinging, Best Wishes, Christy O'Connor' very good condition, wrapper has a couple of small tears to edges. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Condition: New. Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative conversations that have transformed the studyof islands, coasts and waterways. It journeys from the Shetlands to Cornwall, from theAran Islands to the coast of Yorkshire, tracing the cultures of diverse zones through someof the best in contemporary writing about place and people.This collection gathers poetry, prose and visual art in clusters grouped around the Irishand British archipelago, with contributions from an array of significant artists. It includesnewly commissioned work as well as an interview between Andrew McNeillie andRobert Macfarlane on the development of Archipelago across the years.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First paperback edition. Edited and with an introduction by Graham Fawcett. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Contributions by: Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, D. J. Enright, Harry Guest, Glyn Hughes, Wole Soyinka, Michael Schmidt, Edward Lucie-Smith, Fleur Adcock, Ted Walker, Douglas Dunn, Michael Hamburger, Christopher Hampton and Tanikawa Shuntaro. …

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 12.25 x 8.25 inches, 24 pp. Original white heavy paper pictorial covers printed red and black. Very fine copy. Contains a two page interview with Heaney.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm ; ISBN: 0883637014; 9780883637012; LC: N6782; Dewey: 709/.415 ; OCLC: 32164804 ; large folio, color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: 1. Prehistory: ancient myths and legends -- 2. Christianity and the golden age -- from The Confession / Saint Patrick -- from Life of Saint Brigit / Cogitosus -- from Penitential of Vinnian / Vinnian -- from The Rules of Saint Columbanus -- Poems of devotion: Columcille the scribe; the Hermit's song -- The tale of the three treasures; from The voyage of Saint Brendan; from Crith Gablach -- / Geoffrey Keating -- Ireland's golden age / Donatus of Fiesole -- 3. From the Vikings to 1700 -- Viking influence / Seamus MacManus -- From the annals of Clonmacnoise: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf -- Visitor observes the Irish The song of Dermot and the Earl / Giraldus Cambrensis -- Dead at Clonmacnoise / Angus O'Gillan -- A time of change / Egan O'Rahilly -- From a letter to King Phillip of Sapin, 1589 / Francisco De Cuellar -- A letter of resolve / Hugh O'Neill -- A letter on the attack of Drogheda from 'The Jacobite War' / Oliver Cromwell -- An Irish will / John Langley -- Penal Laws / Seamus MacManus -- 4. Eighteenth century -- Kilcash from 'Drapier's Letter IV' / Jonathan Swift -- Speeches from the dock / Theobald Wolfe Tone -- Letter describing Dublin Social life, 1731 / Mary Delany -- Querist / George Berkeley -- A letter from an English gentleman / Oliver Goldsmith -- History of Carolan the last Irish Bard / Oliver Goldsmith -- Lament for Art O'Leary / Eileen O'Leary -- Castle Rackrent / Maria Edgeworth -- 5. Nineteenth century -- Knocknagow; or the homes of Tipperary / Charles -- from Party fight and funeral / William Carleton -- Trinity College / Charles Lever -- Hedge School / William Carleton -- From a speech on the floor of the Commons, 1837 / Daniel O'Connell -- On the causes of the famine / Justin McCarthy -- from My own story / Peter O'Leary -- from 'Memories of the famine / Maire NI Grianna -- on Charles Stewart Parnell / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- Boycotting defined / Charles Stewart Parnell -- from The Tenants of time / Thomas Flanagan -- from Namgay Doola / Rudyard Kipling -- from The Old Munster Circuit / Maurice Healy -- Some favorite Irish Folk Songs: "Wearing of the green"; "I know where I'm going"; "Green grow the lilacs"; "Cockles and mussels"; "You brave Irish Heroes" -- 6. Irish in America -- This Distant land / William D. Griffin -- John Barry, Father of the American Navy / Thomas D'Arcy McGee -- Captain at sea / Parry Miller -- A letter to his brother-in-law, 1785 / John Dunlop -- from An Irish immigrant's letter to his wife, 1818 / John Doyle -- Old Ireland / Walt Whitman -- from John Boyle O'Reilly / Richard Roche -- The Irishness of Billy the Kid / William D. Griffin -- Immigrant daughter's song / Mary Ann Larkin -- from The gift / Pete Hamill -- What Flaherty was / Patrick Fenton -- How Tammany Hall did it / Harry Golden -- from Mortal Friends / James Carroll -- President John F. Kennedy / William V. Shanon -- from Long day's journey into night / Eugene O'Neill -- from The other side / Mary Gordon -- What is it to be Irish / Hal Boyle -- 7. Celtic revival begins -- from Celtic Twilight / W.B. Yeats -- The Piper and the Puca / Douglas Hyde -- The shepherd and the sunbeam / Lawrence Millman -- from Our Irish Theatre / Augusta Gregory -- from Aran Islands / J.M Synge -- from Celtic dawn / Ulick O'Connor -- from Riders to the Sea / J.M. Synge -- from The plough and the stars / Sean O'Casey -- 8. Twentieth century -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree; The wild swans at Coole; At Galway races / W.B. Yeats -- Wager / O'Connell -- from Trinity / Leon Uris -- A botanist looks at Shamrock / E. Charles Nelson -- from The Irish countryman / Conrad Arensberg -- from The green fool / Patrick Kavanagh -- from the Irish flag, 1916: proclamation of the Irish Republic, 1916 / James Connolly -- from The murder machine / Patrick Pears ; G. Book.…

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Paperback. Condition: New. Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative conversations that have transformed the studyof islands, coasts and waterways. It journeys from the Shetlands to Cornwall, from theAran Islands to the coast of Yorkshire, tracing the cultures of diverse zones through someof the best in contemporary writing about place and people.This collection gathers poetry, prose and visual art in clusters grouped around the Irishand British archipelago, with contributions from an array of significant artists. It includesnewly commissioned work as well as an interview between Andrew McNeillie andRobert Macfarlane on the development of Archipelago across the years.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2018 Palgrave hardcover edition. Light reading wear, some highlighting to text else very good condition. Contents: 1. 'Ted Hughes's 'Greening' and the Environmental Humanities' by Terry Gifford; 2. 'The Nuptial Flight: Ted Hughes and the Mayfly' by Mark Wormald; 3. 'Ted Hughes's Paradise' by Neil Roberts; 4. 'Why Look at Animals?' by Danny O'Connor; 5. 'Coetzee's Hughesian Animals' by Claire Heaney; 6. 'The Nature of Ted Hughes's Similes' by James Castell; 7. 'The Nature of Englishness: The Hybrid Poetics of Ted Hughes' by Vidyan Ravinthiran; 8. 'Imagination Alters Everything: Ted Hughes and Place' by Janne Stigen Drangsholt; 9. 'Our Chaucer': Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Politics of Medieval Reading' by James Robinson; 10. 'The Remains of Something': Ted Hughes and The Mabinogion' by Katherine Robinson; 11. 'Ted Hughes's Apocalyptic Origins' by John Goodby; 12. 'Spectral Ophelia: Reading Manuscript Cancellations Contextually in Ted Hughes's Cave Birds' by Carrie Smith; 13. 'The Influence of Ted Hughes: The Case of Alice Oswald' by Laura Blomvall; 14. 'Hughes and Urbanity' by Seamus Perry.…