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1	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue (Translator) add to wishlist Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he ... see all copies from $5.49! new only from $6.10! \| SVS
2	The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue (Editor) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $16.44! new only from $24.43!
3	Outliving more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue add to wishlist Bernard O'Donoghue's magnificent fourth collection of poetry explores its title in a series of beautifully wrought poems whose simple elegance belie their complexity. There are moving elegies for people the poet has outlived. There are poems too about living outside the poet's original environment and the inclination to return there for stories ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $12.69! \| first editions
4	Selected Poems. Bernard O'Donoghue more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue add to wishlist Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, Bernard O'Donoghue's poems have long captivated readers with their lyricism, their grace and with what John Burnside has called their 'scrupulous honesty'. This judicious selection, made by the author himself, draws on twenty years of work and presents O'Donoghue at his most mesmeric: often recalling the ... see all copies from $14.35! new only from $14.35!
5	Oxford Poets 2007: An Anthology more books like this by David Constantine (Editor), Bernard O'Donoghue (Editor) add to wishlist The fifth OxfordPoets anthology continues the aim stated in the first of the series, 'a desire to represent the best' of the new work associated with the OxfordPoets imprint. This latest collection is as varied and thought-provoking as the earlier books. Here are poets from a diversity of backgrounds and traditions, spanning ages, experiences and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.06! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Oxford Poets: An Anthology more books like this by David Constantine (Editor), Hermione Lee (Editor), Bernard O'Donoghue (Editor) add to wishlist The first "Oxford Poets" anthology introduces the work of six writers whose poems extend the rich tradition of the Oxford list, now continuing to develop through Carcanet in association with the English Faculty, Oxford University. The "Oxford Poets" editorial panel makes the selection, acknowledging promise and achievement. There is no editorial ... see all copies from $10.48! new only from $15.87!
7	Gunpowder more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue add to wishlist This is the sequel to the author's first collection of poems, which was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize. Many of the poems in this collection reflect the author's Irish background, including pen-portraits of his family and friends, and are by turns haunting and hilarious. see all copies from $12.01! first editions
8	Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue add to wishlist This book scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney's writings on the appropriate language of poetry. Chapters also look at Heaney's language and at the ... see all copies from $39.15! new only from $62.83! \| first editions
9	Here Nor There more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue add to wishlist Bernard O'Donoghue's third collection of poetry is about the middle ground: being in between two places, being neither here nor there. Again he mines the memories of his rural upbringing in County Cork, weaving a series of tender elegies for the characters and places of his youth. see all copies from $12.50! first editions
10	Oxford Poets 2001: An Anthology more books like this by David Constantine (Editor), Hermione Lee (Editor), Bernard O'Donoghue (Editor) add to wishlist "Oxford'Poets' 2001", the second Oxford'Poets' anthology, fulfils two functions. It reminds readers of some of the leading new and older figures on the Oxford list, including substantial extracts from their work in progress. It also continues the work that the first anthology so notably did, introducing poetry by new writers, but now in the ... see all copies from $15.50! new only from $16.00! \| first editions
11	Weakness more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue add to wishlist A collection of stories, centering mainly on characters from rural Ireland. see all copies from $30.28!
12 view cover	Oxford Poets 2004 more books like this by David Constantine (Editor), Bernard O'Donoghue (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology follows the OxfordPoets anthologies of 2000, 2001 and 2002. It introduces a number of new poets who are beginning to make their way. The collection celebrates the diversity of the Oxford list (since 1999 an imprint of Carcanet Press in association with the English Faculty of the University of Oxford). The editors are members of the ... see all copies from $12.10! new only from $17.63!
13	Selected Poems more books like this by Thomas Hoccleve, Bernard O'Donoghue (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $14.85!
14 view cover	To Ring in Silence: New and Selected Poems more books like this by Paddy Bushe, Bernard O'Donoghue (Introduction by) add to wishlist This volume of poetry does a magnificent service to Irish literature and the Irish language, by showing them to be anything but parochial. Its humanism reaches out to all times and cultures and places. see all copies from $15.80! new only from $18.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Oxford Irish Quotations more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue (Editor) add to wishlist A collection of over 2000 quotations, arranged thematically, that have been chosen because they say something about Ireland or the Irish, or are associated with a specifically Irish context, rather than simply being said or written by an Irish person. This selection aims to be a reflection of Irish history and culture, with particular emphasis on ... see all copies from $3.75! new only from $37.95!
16	Courtly Love Tradition more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17	The May anthology of Oxford and Cambridge poetry 1994 more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! SVS

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