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10 best books like Belfast Confetti (Ciaran Carson): Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past, Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars, Field Work, The Wellspring, Selected Poems, Collected Poems, Moy Sand and Gravel, Selected Poems and Three Plays, One by One in the Darkness, By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember (Faber Poetry)

Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past
AuthorCarol Ann Duffy
ISBN0330448234
I'm not a big reader of poetry, but I'm
glad I read this, both for the opportunity to revisit poems by A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Christina Rossetti, Ben Jonson, and D.H. Lawrence (who knew he had a sense of humour?), but also to see how contemporary poets have responded to their predecessors. I particularly...
Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars
AuthorSeán O'Casey
ISBN0312802900
Sean O'Casey was born in 1880 and lived through a bitterly hard boyhood in a Dublin tenement house. He never went to school but received most of his education in the streets of Dublin, and taught himself to read at the age of fourteen. He was successively a newspaper-seller, docker, stone-breaker, railway-worker...
Field Work
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374516200
"Field Work," which first appeared in 1979, is a superb collection of lyrics and narrative poems from one of the literary masters of our time. As the critic Dennis Donoghue wrote in "The New York Times Book Review": "In 1938, not a moment too soon, W. B. Yeats admonished his colleagues: 'Irish poets, learn...
The Wellspring
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0679765603
This is a beautiful collection of poems. Divided into four sections which are merely numbered, but might be crudely labelled: birth, adolescense, adulthood, and death, the poems deal with the stages of human existence, and are bold, stark, erotic, and unflinching in their descriptions of the activities...
Selected Poems
AuthorLouis MacNeice
ISBN0571233813
'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.'
Louis MacNeice's prescription...
Collected Poems
AuthorPatrick Kavanagh
ISBN0393006948
I was introduced to Kavanagh’s work through several quotations in Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. Those lines convinced me I had to seek out Kavanagh’s poetry.

Patrick Kavanagh wrote of Irish farm life, which he knew so well, without romantic sentimentality....
Moy Sand and Gravel
AuthorPaul Muldoon
ISBN0374528845
Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening,...
Selected Poems and Three Plays
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0020715609
My favorite poems are as follows:

The Lake of Innisfree
When you are Old
The Second Coming
On Woman
The People

However, my favorite lines came for "The Death of Cuchulain" (1939)

When they told me that I could have my own way I wrote certain guiding principles...and...
One by One in the Darkness
AuthorDeirdre Madden
ISBN0571175511
 
Home

I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the quiet seaside town of Bangor, County Down. Although I had moved away before the Troubles started in 1968, I came back occasionally, and happened to be shopping in downtown Belfast during the bombings on "Bloody Friday" in July 1972. My wife and...
By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember (Faber Poetry)
AuthorTed Hughes
ISBN0571192637
What has happened to the lost art of memorising poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language 'by heart'? In his introduction Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the more...
Against Love Poetry: Poems
AuthorEavan Boland
ISBN0393324249
Boland uses the first half of this collection to set out her thoughts on the nature of love, and the remaining poems display her mastery of diverse topics. She uses her Irish identity to good effect, as also her experience of migration, and it is always clear that the poet is a woman with things to say from...
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
AuthorDylan Thomas
I’d always been vaguely or half aware of at least some of the lines contained in this poem – embedded such as they now are in our popular culture and so often used (in film, TV, radio etc). I had however neither read the poem in full, nor made any attempt to understand it, nor even knew that it was written...
Engine Empire: Poems
AuthorCathy Park Hong
ISBN0393082849
Engine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the future. Through three distinct yet interconnected sequences, Cathy Park Hong explores the collective consciousness...
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