Plays & Poetry

Like the painter on his bike in the title poem, balancing a portrait of his father, the poet Enda Wyley in her new collection seeks a balancing of art and experience with honesty, skill and heart.

From Oscar Wilde to Rudyard Kipling, from Jonathan Swift to WB Yeats and Samuel Beckett: the city of Dublin has enchanted and inspired some great poetry. This is a companion for a visit to the Fair City.

A second collection by Arnie Yasinski, “God Lives in Norway and Goes by Christie”. Anchored in his present life in Ireland (swimming at the Forty Foot in the opening poem, "Changing") Arnie reflects on his peripatetic past including being one of the young men in the 1969 U.S. draft lottery for Vietnam, living with his wife and child in married-student housing in Indiana.

An American makes sense of living in Ireland with his second wife; knows his difference is noticed when he opens his mouth to speak; how the stasis of Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ is everywhere — in the inertia of an underlying passivity he hears again and again, “it’s how things are done here”; knowing how darkness can be camouflaged, how the Irish avoid pain by averting their eyes from the abyss.

A unique selection of Yeats's major poems, plays, criticism and other prose writings, showing the connectedness of his literary output. Formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series.

An illustrated collection of forty of Yeats' best-loved works, on topics including Love, Politics, Old Age, Myth and Legend includes people, places and events that were important to him.

A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced.

'The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper' W B Yeats The essential collection of W B Yeats best-loved poems.

The Flame Tree Collectable Classics are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

This beautifully designed gift book includes a selection of over seventy of Yeats's best loved poems. These are complemented by a wide range of paintings, prints and drawings, the majority by Irish or Irish-based artists and often artists who were contemporaries of the poet.