{"title":"Wake Forest University Press","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781943667109","title":"Where Love and Imagination Colour the Dark","description":"Where Love and Imagination Colour the Dark establishes a broad interdisciplinary context in which to consider the work of Thomas Kinsella, one of the most significant poets in modern Irish and international poetry. This collection of twelve essays by some of the finest poets and scholars of contemporary Irish poetry provides a detailed reading of the themes and forms throughout Kinsella’             s remarkable career. Beginning with several chapters devoted to assessing the aesthetic importance of Kinsella’             s native Dublin, this volume traces the evolution of the poet’             s work from the early formalism of the 1950s through the Jungian-inspired explorations of the psyche, his fascination with personal origins and Irish mythology, and the open-ended sequences that characterized his mature poetry. The central role of Kinsella’             s Peppercanister Press from both a creative and artistic perspective is also explored, as is the fundamental importance of Kinsella’             s wife Eleanor, his partner and Muse for more than sixty years.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309484290421,"sku":"9781943667109","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781943667109_67db15d6-734e-4063-a91d-a025a36d5163.jpg?v=1786030597"},{"product_id":"9781943667154","title":"Collected Poems | Gerard Fanning","description":"From his first collection in 1992, Gerard Fanning established himself, in the words of Gerard Smyth, as a poet enduring “             almost by stealth …              forging a distinctive style that is striking for its originality.”              With understated formal elegance, Fanning’             s poetry has the cool and control of the Hollywood westerns he admired, dense with allusions to American music and contemporary cinema, and equally attentive to Ireland’             s eastern and western seascapes. These are poems which welcome and reward investigation, “             where hymn is an amalgam of flutter and whisper, where rhymes \/ fall in with their echo.”             \n\nThis Collected Poems gathers the four books Gerard Fanning published during his lifetime—             Easter Snow (1992), Working for the Government (1999), Water \u0026amp; Power (2004), and Hombre: New and Selected Poems (2011)—             along with his final, unpublished collection, Slip Road, completed shortly before his death in 2017 and published here for the first time. Edited by Fanning’             s wife Brí              d Ní               Chuilinn and poet \/ novelist Conor O’             Callaghan, this collection includes contributions from Gerald Dawe and Colm Tó              ibí              n, Fanning’             s contemporaries and friends, offering key insights for this remarkable body of work.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309680996725,"sku":"9781943667154","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781943667154_373d7f56-946d-462a-b1f9-8cd43b92c7f6.jpg?v=1786030598"},{"product_id":"the-meek","title":"Meek","description":"True voices abound in The Meek, Martin Dyar’             s second full-length collection of poems, throughout which a dramatically charged lyricism links environmental understanding with an emotive exploration of human experience and potential.\n\nThe Meek is distinguished by the resonance and range of its stories, by its closeness to elemental landscape and wildlife, and by its moments of unforgettable insight and beauty. 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