Tearing Stripes off Zebras: Forty Years of Women Writing in Ireland

Tearing Stripes off Zebras is an anthology of new literary writing by women who, at one time or another, have participated in the WEB writers' group in Dublin which emerged in the mid 1980s after some contributors attended workshops organised by the Women's Education Bureau (WEB), the national association of Irish women writers.

Brims with insight, empathy and wry humour. In his third poetry collection Gerry Boland movingly maps the territory of love found, shared and lost, while exploring what gives life meaning. These finely-crafted poems carry a particular and effecting fidelity to the rhythms of the human heart.

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart...