There are several treats in store for poetry lovers in next Saturday's Irish Times books pages. Poet Eavan Boland reviews On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Tóibín; John McAuliffe looks at new collections by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (The Boys of Bluehill) and Paul Durcan (The Days of Surprise); and there is a new poem by Padraig J Daly.

On the fiction front, author John Banville aka Benjamin Black reviews The Blue Room by Georges Simenon. Sarah Gilmartin reviews The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg. Eileen Battersby salutes another reissued European classic, As Trains Pass By (Katinka) by Danish writer Herman Bang.

In non-fiction, Dean Jobb, a journalism professor at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the author of Empire of Deception, the true story of a master swindler who hoodwinked the elite of 1920s Chicago, reviews Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago, by Gillian O'Brien – a fascinating account of a political killing that convulsed Irish America. Political violence on a grander scale is addressed by Laura O'Brien, lecturer in modern European history at the University of Sunderland, who reviews A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan.

Another French take on politics is tackled by Jan-Werner Müller, who teaches politics at Princeton University and is the author of Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe. He reviews On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil.

Eamon Maher, director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in IT Tallaght and co-editor of the Reimagining Ireland series, reviews Thirty-Three Good Men: Celibacy, Obedience and Identity by John A Weafer.

To tie in with the Exquisite Editions exhibition at the National Print Museum, Beggars Bush Barracks, Haddington Road, Dublin 4 until April 18th, Cathy Dillon looks at the art of letterpress printing.