Plays & Poetry International

Fitzmaurice celebrates love, grief and joy, people and place, faith, family and friends in visionary, durable and deceptively simple poems.

New & Selected Poems for the Young and the Young at Heart.

An Irish medic finds healing for himself by writing poems on his phone as the pandemic grips. Rhythm, rhyme, haiku, a list poem of what to do when someone can’t breathe (and why you wouldn’t kneel on their neck), why Lionel Richie keeps sending him emails.

A joyful anthology of Christmas poems and songs with an introduction by Judith Flanders, author of Christmas: A Biography.

This book is a work in Irish on learning and teaching languages. It presents research from relevant academic fields, both general research and research that deals specifically with learning Irish.

Split into four strands, focusing on the climate crisis, birds, Australia and the melting polar caps, The Colour of Extinction forces us to confront the possible futures of the planet that we are destroying yet are so reliant on.

YEATS 150 is a collection of essays, many of them illustrated, commemorating the life and work of Irish poet and Nobel Laureate, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).

Tua Forsstroem is one of Finland's best-loved Swedish-language poets. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the threatened natural world. Her new book focuses acutely on death and grief, and in particular the devastating loss of her beloved granddaughter.