Plays & Poetry Irish

Alicia Byrne Keane’s Pretend Cartoon Strength is a meditation on coastlines, migration, spatial theory, and desire among apocalyptic times.

Matthew Caley's seventh collection speeds through a world where it's harder and harder to tell what's 'real' and what's not. Its title relates to waning national myths and fakery: Harry Potter World as an alibi for the rest of Britain, because the rest of Britain is Harry Potter World, as well as Deep Fake, QAnon, fake news and official news.

Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologising trauma. Jen Campbell writes of Victorian circus and folklore, deep seas and dark forests, discussing her own relationship with hospitals - both as a disabled person, and as an adult reflecting on childhood while going through IVF.

Through critical and creative responses, Eavan Boland: Inside History takes a fresh look at Boland's influence as a poet and critic for the twenty-first century. The essays, poems, and interviews gathered here provide a new frame for critically engaging with Boland's work, one that crosses continental and aesthetic boundaries.

This volume collects the five major books of one of Ireland's leading writers.

News from the Inside is a collection of poems that talk to each other just like the trees do, according to the author, Greg Carey.

In this new poetry collection, Songs for Older Life, Ron Carey has undertaken to celebrate some creative individuals who blossomed in the afternoons, twilights and late evenings of their lives. Some of these are very famous, others are not so well known. But within these pages you will discover in their stories an endless source of encouragement and want to find out more about them.