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If you loved Night Surgery by Julianna McCarthy, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Literary Collections and Poetry.

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Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Isolda Or The Maid Of Kidwelly And Other Poems (1851) — David Rice Jones Aberhonddu

Isolda Or The Maid Of Kidwelly And Other Poems (1851)

David Rice Jones Aberhonddu

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

As It Is — Kevin Crookes

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads — Francis James Child

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Francis James Child

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

Hecuba The Trojan Women ; Andromache — Euripides

Hecuba The Trojan Women ; Andromache

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

I Wanted to Write a Poem The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet — William Carlos Williams

I Wanted to Write a Poem The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet

William Carlos Williams

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

Shapes of Clay (annotated) — Ambrose Bierce

Shapes of Clay (annotated)

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

Driftwood Press 6.1 — James McNulty

Driftwood Press 6.1

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

I Close My Eyes.. — Sandra Mally

I Close My Eyes..

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

Bear, Coyote, Raven — Jason Grundstrom-Whitney

Bear, Coyote, Raven

Jason Grundstrom-Whitney

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

A Time for New Dreams — Ben Okri

A Time for New Dreams

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

Laocoon An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Laocoon An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

In Praise of Poetry — Olʹga Sedakova

In Praise of Poetry

Olʹga Sedakova

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

Coyote’s Song Collected Poems & Selected Art Carlos Cortez Koyokuikatl — Cumpián

Coyote’s Song Collected Poems & Selected Art Carlos Cortez Koyokuikatl

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

Grattius Hunting an Augustan Poet — Steven J. Green

Grattius Hunting an Augustan Poet

Steven J. Green

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

I Codici Friulani Della Divina Commedia Illustrazioni E Varianti Questione E Lezioni Inedite Del Ba — Antonio Fiammazzo

I Codici Friulani Della Divina Commedia Illustrazioni E Varianti Questione E Lezioni Inedite Del Ba

Antonio Fiammazzo

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

New and Selected Poems — David M. Parsons

New and Selected Poems

David M. Parsons

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

Select Translations From Scaliger’s Poetics (1905) — Giulio Cesare Scaligero

Select Translations From Scaliger’s Poetics (1905)

Giulio Cesare Scaligero

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Dual-Language Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) — Pablo Neruda

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Dual-Language Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

The Portable Dante — Dante Alighieri

The Portable Dante

Dante Alighieri

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

Lebanon / Liban Poems of Love and War / Poèmes d’amour et de guerre — Nadia Tuéni

Lebanon / Liban Poems of Love and War / Poèmes d’amour et de guerre

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

Dante’s Divine Comedy The Inferno: A Literal Prose Translation With the Text of the Original Collated From the Best Editions, and Explanatory Notes — Dante Alighieri

Dante’s Divine Comedy The Inferno: A Literal Prose Translation With the Text of the Original Collated From the Best Editions, and Explanatory Notes

Dante Alighieri

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

El Rio Que Corre Bajo la Sangre El Samala, Donde ha Quedado la Sangre de Nuestros Hermanos — Narciso R. de Leon

El Rio Que Corre Bajo la Sangre El Samala, Donde ha Quedado la Sangre de Nuestros Hermanos

Narciso R. de Leon

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

A North Country Life Tales of Woodsmen, Waters, and Wildlife — Sydney Lea

A North Country Life Tales of Woodsmen, Waters, and Wildlife

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

Pushcart Prize XLV Best of the Small Presses 2021 Edition — Bill Henderson

Pushcart Prize XLV Best of the Small Presses 2021 Edition

Themes: Literary Collections • Poetry

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Night Surgery by Julianna McCarthy. Connected by Literary Collections, Poetry. Authors featured include David Rice Jones Aberhonddu, Kevin Crookes, Francis James Child, Euripides, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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