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  • Stepping Stones

    Interviews with Seamus Heaney

    by Dennis O'Driscoll ...
    Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. It is supplemented with a large ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    by Dennis O'Driscoll ...
    "O'Driscoll is a quietly exciting, subtly intelligent poet."-Poetry London"O'Driscoll's crisp, unobtrusively musical precision gets to the heart of so many subjects, large and small."-The Guardian"O'Driscoll is a real poet: his lines stay with you, and crop up unbidden in your mind as you go about your day."-Poetry Ireland ReviewUpdate, the final collection of work by the late Dennis O'Driscoll, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Child's Introduction to the Environment

    The Air, Earth, and Sea Around Us -- Plus Experiments, Projects, and Activities YOU Can Do to Help Our Planet!

    by Michael Driscoll, Dennis Driscoll ...
    Illustrated by Meredith Hamilton ...
    Series series A Child's Introduction Series
    Explore the water, land, and air around us with this entertaining and informative look at our magnificent planet—and learn how your experiments, activities, and everyday actions can help save the environment.This book looks at the wide variety of ecosystems and environmental regions of the Earth, from deserts and forests, to cities and farms, to oceans and ice caps, as well as the atmosphere, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    A Compendium of Jokes, Quips and Quotations from Cicero to the Simpsons

    by Andrew Martin ...
    'A fool and his words are soon parted' wrote William Shenstone in 1764; one might add that 'A wit and his words are rarely collected'. Here is the antidote: a dazzling survey of the funniest remarks, quips and observations from Ancient Rome, the Bible and Chaucer right up to The Simpsons and Little Britain. Over 5,000 of the very funniest remarks to have appeared on paper since, well, paper was ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • On Seamus Heaney

    by Roy Foster ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
    A vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in the Nobel ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Auden

    by Richard Davenport-Hines ...
    Series series Vintage Lives
    Auden's dedication as a writer was matched only by his commitment to challenging the received view of political and personal life. The definitive biography goes beyond a study of the great poet to create a vibrant and masterful commentary on Auden's work, ideas and life within the context of the wars, ideologies, spiritual quests and sexual attitudes of this century. ... Read more

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  • The Achievement of Seamus Heaney

    by John Wilson Foster ...
    The Nobel Prize for Literature has drawn unprecedented attention to the poetry and prose of Seamus Heaney, who now takes his place alongside Dante and Yeats. Yet in spite of his international reputation, some still see Heaney as an earthbound, pastoral poet inspired by nostalgia. The Achievement of Seamus Heaney, by the eminent critic John Wilson Foster, emphasizes the high seriousness and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • NB by J. C.: A Walk through the Times Literary Supplement

    by James Campbell ...
    NB by J. C., a collection of James Campbell’s best columns from the TLS, is a guide to the literary pleasures and absurdities of the past two decades.For over twenty years, James Campbell wrote the popular NB column on the back page of The Times Literary Supplement, signing it “J. C.” The initials were not intended as a disguise, but to provide freedom to the persona. “J. C.” was irreverent, ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prose Factory

    Literary Life in Britain Since 1918

    by D J Taylor ...
    ‘An entertaining history of literary life’ Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily TelegraphSpanning a century of literary history, from the pitched battles fought between Eliot-era modernists and Georgian traditionalists to the impact of creative writing degrees and the media don of today and taking in ‘star reviewers’, sniping critics, caballing editors and megalomaniac professors along the way, The Prose ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Poetry of Derek Mahon

    by Hugh Haughton ...
    Derek Mahon is one of the leading poets of his time, both in Ireland and beyond, famously offering a perspective that is displaced from as much as grounded in his native country. From prodigious beginnings to prolific maturity, he has been, through thick and thin, through troubled times and other, a writer profoundly committed to the art of poetry and the craft of making verse. He has also been no ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

    Edited by Stan Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from Auden ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

    Edited by Bernard O'Donoghue ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    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 the most important English language poets in the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD