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The Secret Life of Poems
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 14.57An encounter with some of the most celebrated poems in the English language, by one of the most distinguished poet-critics of our time. more...
Selected Poems 1972-1990
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 14.57This book offers Tom Paulin's own choice from his first four collections of poems, A State of Justice, The Strange Museum, Liberty Tree and Fivemiletown, and from Seize the Fire, his version of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound. It introduces the new reader to a body of work distinguished from the outset by its intelligence, toughness and lyrical grace.... more...
Fivemiletown
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 13.11'To say that [Fivemiletown] was one of the best books of the Eighties isn't enough: it is one of the best books I know, or for that matter, am capable of imagining: a corrosive and uproarious litany of bad sex, bad politics and bad religion.' Michael Hofmann ]]> more...
Seize the Fire
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 7.28After the success of The Riot Act, his version of Sophocles's Antigone, Tom Paulin turned his formidable powers of transformation on Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound. Commissioned by the Open University, Paulin produced a reworking of the myth, deploying a fluent and sinewy diction laced with the vernacular. As drama it is a brilliant object lesson in... more...
The Road to Inver
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 18.94The Road to Inver gathers the verse translations of Tom Paulin from four decades, and brings together distinguished versions of classical and European poets which have appeared in his previous collections, from Liberty Tree (1983) to The Wind Dog (1999). But The Road to Inver also includes dozens of new and recent translations from the European canon;... more...
The Wind Dog
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 11.65The 'wind dog' is a broken rainbow, but, in the title poem of Tom Paulin's sixth collection, it provides this most agile of poets with a perfect bridge into childhood and its 'lingo-jingo of beginnings'. The poem is a gloriously singing meditation on the life of the ear - 'the only true reader' - and the meaning and music of both words and pre-verbal... more...
Walking a Line
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 11.65A collection of poems by Tom Paulin, who is also known as an essayist and from his appearances on television and radio. The title of the book is taken from a statement by the modernist painter Paul Klee. more...
Love's Bonfire
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 14.57Tom Paulin's first collection since The Road to Inver in 2004, Love's Bonfire sets poems about early life and marriage beside up-to-the minute and minutely registered perceptions of post-settlement Ireland. At the book's centre are delicately inward versions of the contemporary Palestinian poet Walid Khazendar, which resonate with the proximity... more...
Metaphysical Hazlitt
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 161.00Presents William Hazlitt as a philosophical, and not simply a 'familiar' essayist. This collection of essays offers a comprehensive statement of the significance and transmission of Hazlitt's philosophical principles, in his own work and in that of his contemporaries and succeeding writers. more...
The Fight and Other Writings
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableHazlitt is one of the greatest masters of English prose style and this new selection demonstrates the variety and richness of his writing. The volume includes classic pieces of drama and literature criticism, such as his essays on Shakespeare and Coleridge, as well as less well-known material from his social and political journalism. This collection... more...
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