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Love Songs
Sara Teasdale

£5.00

This was Sara Teasdale’s fourth collection, published in 1917, after she had moved to New York. The organizers of the Pulitzer lists this book as the first recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry (even though the prize was not to be inaugurated officially until 1922), as it was “made possible by a special grant from the Poetry Society.”

RETRO POETRY : RP06
C format paperback (216mm x 135mm)
card cover. 100pp

cover design by Alexandra Andries
illustration by Danial Balanescu

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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