Plays & Poetry International

In Stars Burn Regardless, Jean O?Brien writes as a seer, with a vision that travels beneath and through the worlds she inhabits. With stunning language and original voice, she travels the edges of things: the earth/sea/sky the bones/bodies/ash.

A brilliant new thriller about poetry and fascism

This collection from award-winning poet Sean O'Brien tackles England and its relationship with Europe through their tangled history and into the uncertain future.

Irish American poet Julie O'Callaghan's first book since Tell Me This Is Normal: New & Selected Poems. Her new poems have evolved from early monologues, written in American demotic, to poems of heartache on the death of her husband, the poet Dennis O'Driscoll. But even in these harrowing poems she never loses her ear for absurdities of modern life.

Catherine O'Connor, Education Consultant and Author, draws on lifes experience unravelling the journey of grief in poetic form. This book is for anyone, young or old, who has lost a loved one. Reflective and profound. She lives in Dublin, Ireland. Catherine O'Connor tells the story of grief in poetic form. A moving and honest reflection of the desolation, isolation, and emotional consequences of loss and grief. It brings light and hope to the heart.

Love is the central force in Birdie, a collection of 16 flash fictions that sing with the voices of women loving, losing, learning. The characters here find strength, despite the sorrows of death & deceit: a ghost-child returns to Massachusetts to comfort her grieving mother; a Spanish orange tycoon's daughter regrets her mother's terrible choices.

The story behind what makes Beowulf such a remarkable work of art, and why it is of such cultural significance.