Plays & Poetry Irish

Latest collection from Cork poet based at UCC

Introduces forty-four distinct voices, exploring the complexity and nuance of Irish culture, language, and society. In poems of loss, outrage, exhilaration, contemplation, and humour, the writers collected here offer responses to Ireland that intrigue, satisfy, and sustain.

With their stylistic assurance and wildly imaginative flair, Nic Aodha's poems are invigorating the Irish language. Many of her poems are visionary meditations; meeting places where the inner being can commune with the outer world. This is an essential volume of modern Irish poetry, presented in a bilingual edition.

The poems in this dual English-Irish language collection explore the themes of the individual and nature as well as the individual's relation to the gods.

A collection of poems of revolution and dreams and visions of freedom and nationhood for Ireland - focusing on before, during and after the 1916 Rising.

The poems in Claire Askew's electrifying second collection concern witches, outsiders, and women who don't fit into society. The settings range from London buses and Edinburgh alleyways to the streets of Salem, Massachusetts. Also a novelist, Askew is known for her award-winning DI Birch Scottish crime series published by Hodder.

Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley's Staying Alive, which became Britain's most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world.