Literature & Poetry

Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades.

Shortlisted for the 2016 T S Eliot Prize, this collection of expert lyric poems from a Whitbread Poetry Award winner movingly animates the scenery and characters of his childhood in County Cork.

This is an anthology of previously unpublished work by a selection of contemporary writers who all have one thing in common, namely that they have performed for spoken word promoters Apples and Snakes. The book includes poetry, short stories, non-fiction, artwork, anecdotes and essays.

This edition contains some of his best-known pieces, including the elegiac 'Easter 1916', the apocalyptic "The Second Coming" and the reflective and spiritual "Sailing to Byzantium".

Introducing Joyce provides an introduction to the life and work of the great pioneer of modernism.

The cause and attending circumstances of Shakespeare's death in 1616, at age 53, even today remain unknown. This is all the more remarkable because he was almost always surrounded by crowds of people who knew him well and must have been acquainted with the facts of his death: a large group of close relatives ...

By including novels written from a range of political perspectives, Vanden Bossche discovers patterns in Victorian thinking that are easily recognized in today's assumptions about social hierarchy.

Explores three novels by Louise Erdrich, one of the important and popular Native American writers. This book illuminates Erdrich's multiperspectival representation of Native American culture and history. It focuses on such topics as humor, religion, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, trauma, history, and narrative form.

A book about refugees, reality television, detective shows, number-theory, Shakespeare's brothers, ecology, and a marriage.

The first collected edition of over three decades of exquisite criticism - of art, television, film, and literature - by one of America's most beloved writers.

This book explores Sir Angus Wilson's many faces as a writer and investigates the ways in which his literature depicts people who undergo a crisis and/or collapse of self-belief, and then have to find the courage to invent themselves anew.

This is the first full-length study of Marina Warner's work.

This study examines the scope and depth of Neil Gunn's work and assesses him as a writer of European stature.

This study critically explores satire's dominant literary forms and examines the work of its outstanding practitioners.

This book explores contemporary anxieties over language and genre in Johnson's literature.

This text charts Sir Walter Scott's development as a poet and novelist.

This book views the Victorian quest romance genre in the light of debates within the then nascent sciences of Anthropology and Archaeology.

This is a comprehensive study, questioning Lord of the Flies' status as Golding's most popular and important work and giving prominence to The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, The Spire and The Sea Trilogy.

Drawing on Bakhtinian theory, Ailsa Cox looks at ways in which Munro develops the short story's affinity with the present moment to suggest a fluid and ever-changing reality.