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A fully illustrated collection of Irish poems, ranging from medieval classics to modern poems from old favourites to new voices in English and Irish, edited by Lucinda Jacob and Sarah Webb and illustrated by Ashwin Chacko.
Discover thoughtful, surprising and powerful poems in this collection – about love and skateboarding, about feeling lonely and making friends, about jellyfish, magic, school, snowdrops, monsters, blackbirds … and lots, lots more.
Curated with love by the acclaimed children’s poet Lucinda Jacob and award-winning children’s writer and bookseller Sarah Webb, this is a book to treasure now and always.
Beloved Irish poets sit along old medieval poems and diverse contemporary voices including Eavan Boland, Seamus, Heaney, W.B. Yeats, Paula Meehan, Thomas Kinsella, Frank O'Connor, Gabriel Rosenstock, Spike Milligan, Michael Longley, Áine Ní Ghlinn, Oscar Wilde, Pat Ingoldsby, Brendan Kennelly, Nikita Gill, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, Yeva Skalietska and Polina Cosgrave.
Lucinda Jacob writes poetry and stories for children. Widely anthologised, her own books include Hopscotch in the Sky (Little Island, illus. Lauren O’Neill), Climate SOS! and Guzzler’s Party (Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland, illus. by Alan Nolan).
Sarah Webb is an award-winning Irish children’s writer. Her books include Blazing a Trail: Irish Women who Changed the World (illus. Lauren O’Neill) and A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood (illus. Steve McCarthy), both winners of Irish Book Awards. She is active on Twitter/X as @sarahwebbishere and Instagram as @sarahwebbwriter
Ashwin Chacko is an Indian author, illustrator and motivational speaker based in Ireland. He specialises in positively playful, visual storytelling to bring joy and encouragement. His mission is to champion creativity and empower people to find their inner spark through his art, books, talks & workshops. He has authored and illustrated several books including: Keep At It, Little Optimist, Everybody Feels Fear, A little book about Justice, and What Wondrous Shapes We Are. He is active on Instagram and Twitter/X @whackochacko
I am from Ireland, Anonymous, translated from the Medieval English by Lucinda Jacob
The Mystery, attributed to Amergin Glúingel, translated by Douglas Hyde
We Are, Michelle Dunne
Snowdrops, Katie Donovan
Nightboarder, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan
Horse, Catherine Ann Cullen
The Blackbird of Belfast Lough, Ciarán Carson
Int Én Bec, Anonymous
The Blackbird of Belfast Lough, Frank O'Connor
On the Ning Nang Nong, Spike Milligan
Giraffe, Aislinn and Larry O'Loughlin
Hedgehog, Moya Cannon
Leaf-eater, Thomas Kinsella
To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-No, W.B Yeats
The Song of the Whale, Leland Bardwell
The Great Blue Whale, Kerrie Hardie
This Moment, Eavan Boland
Overconfident, Maria Quirke
At Shankill Beach, Moya Cannon
from A Skimming Stone, Lough Bray, David Wheatley
Metal Tide, Polina Cosgrove
Scallywaggin', Rachel Hegarty
In Summer, Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Outside in Summer, Lucinda Jacob
Nearer Home, Vona Groarke
The Recipe for Happiness, Grace Wells
Friends, Monika Nowakowska
An Drama Scoile/ School Play, Áine Ní Ghlinn
Pangur Bán, Anonymous, translated by Robin Flower
Ní gá/ Without, Gabriel Rosenstock
Three Wishes, Geraldine Mitchell
Smugairle Róin/ Jellyfish (or Seal’s Snot), Réaltán Ní Leannáin
Earth Whispers, Julie O'Callaghan
Summer Yearn, Eithne Hand
Praise, Jane Clarke
Blackberry Picking, Seamus Heaney
Blackberry Feast, Margot Bosonnet
Our Exercise for Today, Pat Ingoldsby
Finding my space, Carol Boland
Surnames, Polina Cosgrave
Leaving Gdańsk Główny, from The Weight of Water, Sarah Crossan
from Maude, Enthralled, Doireann Ní Ghríofa
The Jellyfish’s Tongue Twister, Gordon Snell
Ar Iarraidh …/ Escaped ... , Gabriel Rosenstock
Worms Can't Fly, Aislinn and Larry O'Loughlin
All the Dogs, Matthew Sweeney
The Old Woman of the Roads, Pádraic Colum
Girl in a Rope, Brendan Kennelly
I'll Tell My Ma, Traditional
Molly Malone, Traditional
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, W.B Yeats
March, Freda Laughton
Pumpkinhead, Julie O'Callaghan
Hallowe'en, Michael Longley
Visitor, Nessa O'Mahoney
Symphony in Yellow, Oscar Wilde
Ar Strae sa Chloigeann/ Astray in the Head, Máire Zepf
Little Jenny, Gerry Hanberry
The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Katharine Tynan
A Vole Poem, Linda McGrory
Pug, Nick Laird
WUFF, Gabriel Rosenstock
A Very Short Writing Course, Pat Ingoldsby
Taking My Pen for a Walk, Julie O'Callaghan
Dolphin, Catherine Ann Cullen
from The Deepest Breath, Meg Grehan
When Your Baby Sister Asks You if She’s Pretty, Nikita Gill
Bird, Lucinda Jacob
Musha Mammy, Chrissy Ward
Lá na bPeataí/Pets' Day, Áine Nī Ghlinn
Puppy Love, Annette Reddy
Irish Elk, Catherine Phil MacCarthy
What the Deer Said, Mark Roper
Stuff, Derek Mahon
from Stuck Indoors, Enda Wyley
The Sloth, Anne McDonnell
The Sloth's Snooze, Gordon Snell
Tree Sloth, Mark Granier
The Coal Jetty, Sinéad Morrissey
My Ship, Christy Brown
A Boy, Matthew Sweeney
Exploring, Margot Bosonnet
Umbrella, Ruth Ennis
A Bit of Free Verse, Alan Murphy
The Cat and the Moon, W.B. Yeats
On Finding a Dead Rat in the Living Room, Paul Ó Colmáin
All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters, James Joyce
from A Calm, Adelaide O'Keefee
from Moon-Light, Adelaide O'Keefee
The Honesties, Dave Lordan
Ocean Song, E.R. Murray
My Best Friend's A Monster, Nigel Quinlan
on o'connell bridge, Rafael Mendes
Beans on Toast, Zainab Boladale
Out and Back, Lucinda Jacob
Everything is Going to be All Right by Derek Mahon
Cat's Eye, David Butler
Merrion Square, James Stephens
When you Walk, James Stephens
Goat III, Eva Bourke
Fox, Leanne O'Sullivan
I Like being a Frog, Sian Quill
My Delicious Hat, Paul Timoney
I Love these Hands, Queva Zheng
The Lion King, Joseph Woods
You Don't Know What War Is, Yeva Skalietska
Wake, Ciarán Carson
Winter in Inis Meáin Louise C.Callaghan
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B Yeats
Changin Hosses Dave Lordan
The Pony's Eyes, Tony Curtis
In a Dublin Museum, Sheila Wingfield
The Standing Army Paula Meehan
from Ode, Arthur O'Shaughnessy
93 Percent Stardust, Nikita Gill