{"product_id":"let-the-hare-sit-ceait-n-bheildiin-9781915629050","title":"Let the Hare Sit \/ Lig don nGiorria Suí","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLet the Hare Sit \/ Lig don nGiorria Suí \u003c\/em\u003eis a significant event in Irish poetry publishing - the first extended selection of poems by Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin in a dual-language format. A summary of a journey to date, the book is also an opportunity for those with less than fluent Irish to approach the original poems in the company of their English translations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch-admired as \"one of the most innovative and interesting voices in contemporary Irish language poetry\" (Doireann Ní Ghríofa), Ní Bheildiúin is the author of a rich, myth-informed, yet entirely earthed body of work in which she can describe a school of beached whales as \"huge, songless shapes\" and address Mount Brandon with such simplicity and directness (\"I am too long hardened. Brandon, \/ have you hardened? And your heart?\") that we almost expect to hear the response.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeftly and faithfully rendered in English by Paddy Bushe, these selected poems are, among other things, an invitation to \"stop Dead still Without spilling a drop \/ From the jug of your heart ...\" - the kind of invitation few of us can afford to pass up on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In these exquisitely tuned lyrics she brings us to a place that is both real and imagined; a lost domain, fabulous and yet strangely familiar\"-Cathal Ó Searcaigh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1915629055\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915629050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dedalus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d","brand":"Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069554651391,"sku":"9781915629050","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2307043f-d0bf-42f0-b8ae-15da06744a6f.jpg?v=1685425336","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/let-the-hare-sit-ceait-n-bheildiin-9781915629050","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}