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Gail McConnell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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poems | essays (The Sun is Open; Fothermather; creatureliness, queerness, parenthood, violence, the living & dead) Reader in English @QUBelfast @HeaneyCentre

8 books
Book Cover for: River Scar: poems, Paul Martin

River Scar: poems

Paul Martin
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A real pleasure to be on Talkback with William Crawley @bbcradioulster yesterday reading & talking about poems with Paul Maddern in #BelfastBookWeek - featuring an owl, a pussycat, Kay Ryan’s lighthouse, a shout-out to Paula Cunningham, @duanalla & Martin Dyar. Listen below 👇🏼 https://t.co/CBId20rCFm

Paperback, 2019

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Weather: Poems, Dave Lucas

Weather: Poems

Dave Lucas
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Delighted to be reading some poems with some fine poets from both sides of the Atlantic: Phil Metres, Jenny Browne, Dave Lucas, Milena Williamson & Stephen Sexton. Mon 22 May at 7pm https://t.co/x2huOPgpmK

Paperback, 2011

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Poems, William Cunningham

Poems

William Cunningham
Gail McConnellGail McConnell

A real pleasure to be on Talkback with William Crawley @bbcradioulster yesterday reading & talking about poems with Paul Maddern in #BelfastBookWeek - featuring an owl, a pussycat, Kay Ryan’s lighthouse, a shout-out to Paula Cunningham, @duanalla & Martin Dyar. Listen below 👇🏼 https://t.co/CBId20rCFm

Paperback, 2017

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Niagara River: Poems, Kay Ryan

The Niagara River: Poems

Kay Ryan
Gail McConnellGail McConnell

A real pleasure to be on Talkback with William Crawley @bbcradioulster yesterday reading & talking about poems with Paul Maddern in #BelfastBookWeek - featuring an owl, a pussycat, Kay Ryan’s lighthouse, a shout-out to Paula Cunningham, @duanalla & Martin Dyar. Listen below 👇🏼 https://t.co/CBId20rCFm

Paperback, 2005

$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Trespasses, Louise Kennedy

Trespasses

Louise Kennedy
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Had a lovely time chatting with ⁦@williamcrawley⁩ & lovely guests on ⁦@BBCTalkback⁩ about Trespasses by Louise Kennedy and other books of the year. https://t.co/WJO5aYof5s

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect, Denise Riley

Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect

Denise Riley
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Teaching Kimberley Campanello’s MOTHERBABYHOME with Denise Riley’s Impersonal Passion for Irish Poetry today. Yessssss @KCampanello https://t.co/m6uKJXK9Ee

Paperback, 2005

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse, Anahid Nersessian

Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse

Anahid Nersessian
Gail McConnellGail McConnell

Ok the 15 page chapter on ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ in Anahid Nersessian’s Keats’s Odes is just… 🔥☄️✊This is extraordinary criticism. ‘The speaker of Keats’s ode reads like a rapist. What else is that ghastly assertion, ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ for but to destroy the [🧵]

Paperback, 2022

$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: To Die in Latin: Poems, William Ryan

To Die in Latin: Poems

William Ryan
Gail McConnellGail McConnell

A real pleasure to be on Talkback with William Crawley @bbcradioulster yesterday reading & talking about poems with Paul Maddern in #BelfastBookWeek - featuring an owl, a pussycat, Kay Ryan’s lighthouse, a shout-out to Paula Cunningham, @duanalla & Martin Dyar. Listen below 👇🏼 https://t.co/CBId20rCFm

Paperback, 2011

$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book