Gail McConnell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Gail McConnell on X
poems | essays (The Sun is Open; Fothermather; creatureliness, queerness, parenthood, violence, the living & dead) Reader in English @QUBelfast @HeaneyCentre

River Scar: poems
Paul Martin
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
Weather: Poems
Dave Lucas
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
Poems
William Cunningham
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
The Niagara River: Poems
Kay Ryan
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
Trespasses
Louise Kennedy
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
Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect
Denise Riley
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
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
Anahid Nersessian
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
To Die in Latin: Poems
William Ryan
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