This sixth collection by one of Carcanet's most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyric poems musing on history, on archaeology, geology and on the deep need of the human spirit to find expression in music and song.

"Keats Lives" is Moya Cannon's fifth collection of poems. Characteristically rich in the moods and rhythms of the poet's western Irish homeland, it is also drawn farther afield, towards contemplation of the disasters of previous centuries, their "man...

In Moya Cannon's new collection, "Hands", the commonplace is transfigured by an attentiveness that jolts us into wonder. The poems sing of deep connections: the impulse to ritual and pattern that, across centuries, defines us as human; a web of inte...

"Carrying the Songs" explores what is lost to time and change, and what endures and is transformed: languages and landscapes, artefacts and songs, carried through a lifetime, across oceans, across centuries. A long-forgotten Gaelic word surfaces from...