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Considered a pioneer in Italian theater, Jacopone is probably nowadays best known as the author of religious poems, typified by their flamboyant and, sometimes, heartbreaking drama. He was filled with the conviction that God extravagantly loves sinful humans.

An exciting debut from an Irish poet whose work is already well known from literary magazines and journals, this volume contains pieces that are at once formally alert and alive to the possibilities of new departure.

This collection of comic and satirical lyrics comments on recent changes and developments in Irish society. Most of the events commemorated in the lyrics had taken place over the 1980s and 1990s.

Irish poetry is among the most vibrant language cultures in the world. A decade on from the landmark anthology Watching the River Flow: A Century in Irish Poetry (Poetry Ireland, 1999), Flowing, Still reissues the ten introductory essays from that book-by some of the best-known figures in contemporary Irish poetry, among them Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Nuala N Dhomhnaill, Eavan Boland and Ciaran Carson-adding a number of extended essays which bring the book up to the present day. This new volume aims to provide students and general readers alike with an affordable single-volume introduction to Irish poetry since 1900-in the words of some of its finest living practitioners.

In her second collection of poetry, O'Brien probes the shadows cast by love in its different forms.

Ten Modern Arab Poets, first published in 1992, is a selection of the best of Irish poet Desmond O'Grady's translations from the Arabic. The poets choen include Abu Nuwas of Iraq, Ibrahim Naji of Egypt, Badawi al-Jabal of Syria and Al-Tijani Yusuf Bashir of Sudan. "Love is the dominant theme of all Arabic poetry from pre-Islamic times to the present," O'Grady writes in his introduction. "The Arab concept of poets and poetry is essentially romantic, and love in its various forms essentially its theme: love of woman, friend, country, Arab identity, God or his manifestations." O'Grady also provides a short biographical introduction to each poet.

This edition contains the first major selection of poems in English translation from one of the best-known names in contemporary Greek poetry--Haris Vlavianos, who was born in Rome in 1957 and grew up in Athens.

In this new collection of witty poems, written in Irish, but presented here with the author's own English language translations, Rosenstock continues his exploration of the meeting points between western and eastern spiritual paths.

In Lorcas "Tamarit" poems, the dominant theme is that of life/love and death. He returns to Andalusian material, specifically to his native city of Granada, for images and atmosphere. "The Tamarit Poems" is considered by many Lorcan scholars as among his finest work.

The poems in "Complicated Pleasures" exist on the border between the personal and the political, combining delicately lyrical meditations on love, art, and memory with darker works that confront full-on the pressures and uncertainties of an urban globalized world.