Plays & Poetry International

John McCullough's Crowd Voltage addresses yearnings for community. It probes fragmentation within groups and individuals - disturbances within the body of the crowd and the crowd of the body. Engaging with working-class and queer experiences, the poems move between solitude and togetherness, haunted by ghosts from history.

The second in McDonagh's Connemara trilogy of plays. Mick Dowd is hired annually to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, in order to make way for the new arrivals. As the time comes for him to dig up those of his own late wife, strange rumours also resurface.

This seventh collection from Peter McDonald is a book of poems where fortune itself, which sets the terms for a life, becomes a lyrical music.

Lyrical and at times unsettling, The Somnambulist Cookbook explores the quality of disappearance, slowly breaking down as the poems swing from rogue sonnets to fractured prose poems, reminiscent of Larkin, but if he had gone abroad and listened to Pavement rather than jazz.

Popular Dublin poet's latest collection.

Stunning debut collection, bringing the ghettoised working class into contemporary Irish poetry. Noisy, dark, but shot through with humour, Gub heralds a wholly new voice out of Belfast.

Sharp, twisted and funny, Fair Deal charts one last night in the Thornton family home.

A Student Edition of this 2021 play, exploring its themes of sexuality, emigration and time, as well as its use of drag and other queer performance aesthetics.