Wake Forest University Press

February 2009

Wake Forest is pleased to reissue the selected poems of Louis MacNeice, one of the pivotal poets of modern times, a significant volume edited by Michael Longley.

"It is as if anger, grace and wit have been hammererd white-hot into the finest shining tool and ornament."  Maura Dooley

April 2009

clothbound    $19.95

April  2009

Paula Meehan is that rare and precious thing—a vocational poet of courage and integrity. Already much-loved and admired far beyond the shores of her native Ireland, Meehan advances her claim on our hearts and minds with Painting Rain.  From present-day Dublin to Ancient Greece, the myths and flawed heroes of her poems give back to us our own lives, counted out in illuminated moments of joy, pain, love, and memory. Carol Ann Duffy

"At nearly 600 pages, this Collected Poems provides the best introduction to one of Ireland's most interesting contemporary writers. By revealing his persistent recuperation and reworking of motifs from across his career so far, it may also make experienced readers see his work in a new light. Perfection is mainly the goal of miniature; the majority of these poems have other goals and other strengths. In his consistently experimental writing, Carson's investigations of his medium and of the world become a single task. "   Paul Franz, Bookslut

ISBN 978-1-930630-46-8  clothbound with signature-embossed cover, black and white jacket  $29.95

"Carson's Collected does its job; iit reminds us that Carson is a poet of sustained authority and resourcefulness, arguably the best writing in English to have emerged in the past 25 years." Michael Hinds,  Irish Times 

ISBN 978-1-930630-45-1  paperback   $19.95

April  2009 

ISBN 978-1-930630-44-4  paperback $12.95

"There is something second-sighted about Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's work. Her poems see things anew, in a rinsed and dreamstruck light." Seamus Heaney