Plays & Poetry Irish

Published to mark 20 years of Bewley’s Café Theatre The seven plays: Fred & Alice by John Sheehy The Importance of Being Honest by Billie Traynor The Quiet Land by Malachy McKenna Cirque des Rêves by Katie McCann All honey by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Normal by Caitríona Daly Wringer by Stewart Roche

New collection from acclaimed Dublin poet. Deceptively simple, The Dark Art of Darning is an emotionally complex collection in which carefully distilled poems reveal their insights slowly.

Poetry.

Poetry Ireland Review 139, edited by Maurice Riordan, features new poems from Nick Laird, Thomas McCarthy, Emily Berry, Mary Noonan, and John W. Sexton, among many others, while Irish-language editor Aifric Mac Aodha’s selection includes new poetry from Gabriel Rosenstock, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Doireann Ní Ghríofa.

Catherine Ronan’s debut poetry collection, Elemental Skin, fairly crackles with electricity and verve as each turned page lets loose a gorgeous cacophony, a brimming over of musical plenty.

A true hymn to heaven and earth, Beyond Stillness is a moving, sensitive exploration of our relationship with the damaged natural world, seen up close and often in astonishing, affecting detail.

A legendary animal, the Sasquatch is hunted by many but seen by very few. These philosophical reflections about the disappearance of species, both real and imagined, can also be read as a dirge for a species, culture, or language in irreversible decline.

A legendary animal, the Sasquatch is hunted by many but seen by very few. These philosophical reflections about the disappearance of species, both real and imagined, can also be read as a dirge for a species, culture, or language in irreversible decline.

Published May 2021