An inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets and a brilliantly argued essay in the history of ideas.

Full of unexpected riches, Dime-Store Alchemy is both an entrancing meditation on the nature of art and a perfect introduction to a major American artist by a peer.

A beautiful collection of poems, family reminiscences and stunning photography brings Thomas Kinsella's Dublin to life. Here, Kinsella's poems are shaped around personal recollections of the people and places closest to his heart.

In these essays, five of our most accomplished artists and critics explore questions of technique and interpretation in the performing arts.

For times of sorrow and remembrance or to be read at funerals.

Begun in February 1939, Vita Sackville-West's award-winning poem The Garden presents a more personal response to Nature than its companion poem, The Land.

Ancient Greek verse in translation - from Homer to Sophocles - with illustrations for each verse.

A pocket anthology of nineteenth-century French poetry, illustrated with impressionist paintings.

Four of Euripides' tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson.

The Aran and Blasket Islands have been a source of inspiration for writers and artists.