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A Dome of Many-coloured Glass
Amy Lowell

£5.00

This was Lowell’s first collection, published in 1912 when she was 38. Her first poem had been published only two years previously, and this immature work, based on a volume of Keats (the title is taken from Adonaïs, Shelley’s pastoral elegy to Keats), shows nonetheless her natural affinity with the emerging imagist poetry of Ezra Pound and others.

RETRO POETRY : RP05
C format paperback (216mm x 135mm)
card cover. 100pp
illustration by Danial Balanescu
cover design by Alexandra Andries

Bernard O’Donoghue reads ‘Connolly’s Bookshop’

Bernard O’Donoghue’s poetry collection The Seasons of Cullen Church (Faber, 2016) is lyrical and observant, an elegiac lament, beautiful so often, riddled with memories of a childhood spent near Cork.

Bookshops were very much part of Bernard’s youth, a journey to Cork often only a pilgrimage to visit them. Connolly’s Bookshop in the centre of the city had fought many commercial battles; it closed in 2014, a casualty of a changing world that made less sense of local community.

(This video was filmed in a previous bookshop.)

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