Plays & Poetry Irish

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.

Kilkenny Poet.

The centenary of writer Leland Bardwell’s birth in 1922 provides an opportunity to reassess the importance of a prominent and significant voice in Irish poetry. From a turbulent and restless life lived often on the economic and social margins of the Ireland of the time, her poetic perspective came at a cutting angle, and it is as sharp today as it was when she was writing.