In this tender and beautifully curated volume, Love is Unhappy When Love is Away gathers James Joyce's most intimate and emotionally resonant poems.

Drawn from across Joyce's poetic output, this collection includes lyrical gems such as 'Rain Has Fallen All the Day', 'My Dove, My Beautiful One', and 'Because Your Voice Was at My Side', capturing moments of longing, fleeting passion, spiritual connection, and...

In this tender and beautifully curated volume, Love is Unhappy When Love is Away gathers James Joyce's most intimate and emotionally resonant poems.

Drawn from across Joyce's poetic output, this collection includes lyrical gems such as 'Rain Has Fallen All the Day', 'My Dove, My Beautiful One', and 'Because Your Voice Was at My Side', capturing moments of longing, fleeting passion, spiritual connection, and sorrow. Whether through the musical delicacy of 'Bright Cap and Streamers' or the haunting intensity of 'I Hear an Army', Joyce's verse explores the complexity of love with rare emotional clarity and timeless elegance.

This new collection invites readers to discover Joyce not just as a revolutionary modernist, but as a poet of profound feeling and lyrical grace. A perfect gift for lovers of poetry, literature, and timeless expressions of the heart, Love is Unhappy When Love is Away is a moving tribute to the joys and sorrows of love in all its forms.