James Joyce: Poems by James Joyce

James Joyce: Poems by James JoyceJames Joyce is most celebrated for his remarkable novel Ulysses, and yet he was also an accomplished poet. Chamber Music, his debut collection, fused the styles of the Celtic Revival with his own brand of ironic exuberance. Pomes Penyeach, a collection written when Joyce had published Dubliners and was completing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, explores intimate themes of adultery, jealousy, and betrayal that would reappear transformed in the

the languid

but shows that sometimes a new life is possible

your true 'soul friend'

are here in the searchings of a great poet' Adrienne Rich

Then Jack stumbles upon a cheerful

In addition

In Deacon King Kong

'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino

The earth was young and full of colour

and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years'

she realises that she barely knows him

justice and all those other things we hear politicians talking about