Theodore Deppe's sixth collection comprises twelve shorter poems, a lyric essay, and a book-length poem that begins with a swim in the North Atlantic after his father's death.
These stories are quirky and lovely, shining with moments of glad grace. There is nothing quite like them in contemporary Irish fiction. Anne Devlin has her own original, arresting way of looking at the world, and of writing. Funky, sparkling, wise and wonderful. This is a gem of a collection - Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
Countess Markievicz returns in 2019, to cast an eye on contemporary Ireland, to assess a century of progress, change and stagnation, and to give her views to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
Mapping the changes that have occurred in Irish literature over the past fifty years, this volume includes twenty-one writers, poets, and playwrights from the North and South of Ireland, who tell their own stories. They are funny, tragic, angry, philosophical, but all are vivid accounts of their experiences as women writing.
This second edition of the author's debut poetry collection includes a new poem. Donnelly is best known for the plays, The Station Master, Upstarts, The Silver Dollar Boys, and Butterfly, some of which were staged by the Abbey Theatre. He is a member the Irish Academy of Arts.
Farrell is a loner who has survived a fractured childhood. He finds love with Grace, the daughter of his employer. But issues of class, and emotional and mental fragility, threaten to destroy their relationship. In his desire to protect the woman he loves, Farrell gets caught up in the violence of an obsession. The results are catastrophic.
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.
Maiden Names won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. It was a book of the year selection in both the Guardian and the Irish Times and was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize.
This is the debut collection of poetry from Clemency Emmet, a member of the famous family descended from revolutionary Robert Emmet. It includes full-colour artwork from Elizabeth Cope, one of Ireland's most acclaimed artists.