Pomes Penyeach is a collection of thirteen short poems written by James Joyce published in 1927.
The title is a play on "poems" and pommes (the French word for apples) which are here offered at "a penny each" in either currency.
[1] Although paid scant attention on its initial publication,[2] this slender volume (which contains fewer than 1000 words in total) has proven surprisingly durable, and a number of its poems (particularly "Tilly", "A flower given to my daughter", "On the beach at Fontana", and "Bahnhofstrasse") continue to appear in anthologies to this day.
[3] Pomes Penyeach contains a number of Joycean neologisms ("rosefrail", "moongrey" and "sindark", for example) created by melding two words into a new compound.
Sometimes romantic love is intended, in tones that vary from sentimental or nostalgic ("O sighing grasses,/ Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn!")