Plays & Poetry Irish

Deirdre Brennan was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in Tipperary, she now lives in Carlow.

Staying Thin for Daddy is the debut English-language short story collection from Brennan, one of Ireland's leading writers in both the Irish and English languages. The book was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Collection Award.

Poetry. Beautiful and disturbing by turns, these reflections on Ireland and Mexico's shared colonial past invoke topographies both real and imagined, where 'things in the ground have a tendency to grow.' Let the Dead reminds us of the power of art to shape our perception of history, and of the artist's responsibility in a time of violence.

'Accidental poet' Jan Brierton returns with a brand-new book EVERYBODY IS A POEM. Taking its name from her popular podcast, EVERYBODY IS A POEM is a compact collection of poems about love, loss, aging, the mental load, menopause and everything in between.

THE CONVERSATION is a collaborative poetry collection by Jo Burns and Emily Cooper which imagines a conversation held between Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar and Françoise Gilot, three of Picasso’s lovers and subjects.