Plays & Poetry International

A gem-like selection of Stevie Smith's best-loved poems: 'Cheerful, brutal, beautiful! Stevie Smith is the wildest poet of them all.' Nick Cave

The Forward Prize-winning collection by Karen Solie, a poet 'by whom the language lives'

The poems translated here were written between the 7th and 12th centuries AD, making them the oldest vernacular poetry in Europe. Latin, which arrived with Christianity in the 5th century and brought a script, was the only other language in play, although there are occasional loanwords from Norse and other tongues.

War Horse

A beautiful & elegant new play from Norway's greatest contemporary writer, Jon Fosse. Adapted here by British playwright Simon Stephens, this version opened to great acclaim at London's Young Vic theatre.

Dolores Stewart imagines and writes in the two tongues of Ireland.