Devotions by Mary Oliver

Devotions by Mary OliverA New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's 'Books That Help Me Through' for Oprah's Book Club 'No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and

a boy and his sister watch vehicles pass on a town street and have to guess what's coming

Dark Lies the Island

this book explores class

about the shallowness of sanity

Darkness falls

furiously good

The narrator of Assembly is a Black British woman

Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a vast and conflicting range of visions of that future: far more immediate was the unfolding disaster of the First World War that had put 'home rule' issues on ice for the duration

Following the acclaimed No Visible Bruises

Things happened suddenly

mid-performance

an appealing and appetite-whetting introduction to a century's poetry' Irish Times