7 Top poetry books like To Star the Dark by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

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To Star the Dark

By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa

4.23

Format: 69 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s much-anticipated new collection To Star the Dark take place in h…

If you liked the poetry plot in To Star the Dark by Doireann Ní Ghríofa , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride

1. The Lesser Bohemians

By: Eimear McBride

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

The captivating new novel from Eimear McBride, critically acclaimed and Baileys Women's Prize-winni… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature

2. Thomas F's siste nedtegnelser til almenheten

By: Kjell Askildsen

3.00

Format: 96 pages,

Inneholder tre av forfatterens noveller: Thomas F's siste nedtegnelser til almenheten handler om Th… read more

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3. Everything Is Teeth

By: Evie Wyld , Joe Sumner

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South… read more

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4. The Dog Who Dared to Dream

By: Sun-mi Hwang , Chi-Young Kim

5.00

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a dog named Scraggly. Born an outsider because of her distinctive appearance, … read more

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5. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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6. Bolla

By: Pajtim Statovci

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Kansainvälisen tähtikirjailijan lumoava romaani sokeasta rakkaudesta, sodasta, kodittomuudesta ja k… read more

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"Faced with death a person is as close to the radiance of life as can be. A lack of options is in fact a multitude of possibilities."

-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla

"War is born of war and there is no war that will end a war, and the disgust the boy caused was war’s finger, a fist shoved down the throat."

-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla

"One raised with fear never learns to live without it. When you take away its cause, fear manifests, becoming its own consequences – a lingering suspicion, hallucinations and waking dreams."

-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla

"Isn’t it strange how – again and again, as if to humiliate themselves – people fool themselves into thinking they can get time back somehow? How time only becomes important once it has passed?"

-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla

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7. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more

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8. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

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"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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9. Men I Trust

By: Tommi Parrish

3.75

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet. Sasha, a twentysomething yearning for… read more

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10. The Piano Tuner

By: Chiang-Sheng Kuo

3.14

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tu… read more

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11. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

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  • poetry
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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12. Baby Teeth

By: Meg Grehan

3.67

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A unique verse novel of queer love, lust, and vampires. From the award-winning author of The Deepes… read more

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  • poetry
"There is a specific type of Shame I think That comes with realising Exactly how little You understand yourself It's It's embarrassing One little life to figure out One little self But For us It's sit…"

-Meg Grehan, Baby Teeth

Cover of To Star the Dark by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

13. To Star the Dark

By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa

4.23

Format: 69 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s much-anticipated new collection To Star the Dark take place in h… read more

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  • medical
  • poetry
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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14. Zeszyt ćwiczeń

By: Joanna Łępicka

4.07

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Wiersze wyprowadzające język: z domu, w pole, w szwendanie. Wyganiające myśl w intensywność, niech … read more

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15. Nieuzasadnione poczucie szczęścia

By: Tomasz Tyczyński

3.68

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Ta proza jest bezczelnie staroświecka, skandalicznie niemodna. Jest szukaniem urody świata. Mimo ws… read more

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16. Magiczna rana

By: Dorota Masłowska

3.73

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Długo oczekiwany prozatorski powrót Doroty Masłowskiej Trashowa powieść, która w obłąkańczo zaba… read more

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17. Jesteśmy pierwszą ciemnością tego lata

By: Ola Lewandowska

2.88

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Moc poezji Oli Lewandowskiej wynika z napięć – z elektryzującego niepokoju, który w skwarnym sierpn… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Lament for Art O'Leary: Translation from the Irish of Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill by Eileen O'Connell

18. Lament for Art O'Leary: Translation from the Irish of Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill

By: Eileen O'Connell

4.07

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Koniec świata i inne małe utwory prozą by Robert Walser

19. Koniec świata i inne małe utwory prozą

By: Robert Walser

3.43

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Słychać zewsząd, że koniec świata już blisko, apokaliptyczne nastroje opanowały nasz glob z szybkoś… read more

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Cover of Now We Can Talk Openly about Men by Martina Evans

20. Now We Can Talk Openly about Men

By: Martina Evans

3.76

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2019 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Shortlisted for the 2019 Pigott Poetry Award… read more

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  • poetry
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21. Gold Light Shining

By: Bebe Ashley

4.04

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

In her debut collection of poetry, Bebe Ashley spins gold from the detritus of the internet. A land… read more

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  • poetry

8 Best poetry books like Lament for Art O'Leary: Translation from the Irish of Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill by Eileen O'Connell

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Ariel

Sylvia Plath

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

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The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

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