Plays & Poetry International

Aoife Lyall's debut collection Mother, Nature explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood, from ante-natal complications and the devastating pain of miscarriage to the overwhelming joy of healthy delivery and normal infancy. Born and raised in Dublin, Aoife Lyall now lives in the Scottish Highlands.

America's much celebrated poet-undertaker Thomas Lynch is renowned for his thought-provoking poems on life, faith, doubt and death. This new retrospective shows the passage of his work over time, 'a pilgrimage of sorts through growing old and facing death - subjects that caregivers know all too well.

Rogha dánta le Proinsias Mac a’ Bhaird. Is as Árann Mhór i dTír Chonaill do Phroinsias Mac a’ Bhaird. Seo an ceathrú cnuasach filíochta dá chuid atá curtha i gcló. A selection of poetry by Proinsias Mac a’ Bhaird. This is the Árann Mhór poet’s fourth collection.

Murder mystery by Proinsias Mac a'Bhaird set in the modern day but around a prediction made over a thousand years ago. Winner of the first prize in the Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary competition for a new novel.

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.

Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of global literacy non-profit, Room to Read, The Gifts of Reading forms inspiring, unforgettable, irresistible proof of the power and necessity of books and reading.

Noted novelist and essayist Tim MacGabhann's debut collection demonstrates a rare confidence and coherence, charting the course of addiction and recovery in a series of formally assured and blackly funny poems which bring us on a delirious but vividly captured journey from Ireland to Mexico.

In this third collection, Mary Madec returns to the real world of what it means to be herself, a woman of these times, exploring again the territories of the heart. She presents a partly imagined trajectory, extending beyond the present and deep into the past, reaching into the experiences of silence and calling out the ‘voices.’ Her poems are compassionate and courageous, sensual and sometimes visceral meditations on the injured or ageing body, the broken heart, the reality of our ineluctably transient lives, and all the attendant grief. And yet there are light touches of redeeming humour, and always the Little White Egret of hope cancelling out the darkness. Her language is rich and precise, sensitive to how it must map the tangles of mind and heart in this poetic project, which asks the poet to tell us what it is we are made of, what it is that makes it possible for us to walk on this earth and be sufficient to ourselves.

With its roots in the devotional verse of the early Christian church and the long lyric poems of the Irish bards, Irish poetry has a rich and robust tradition both of engagement and self-reflection.