Two tragi-comedies set in Roche's southern Irish home town of Wexford. "The Cavalcaders" follows the life of a smalltown shoemaker who amuses himself singing with a barbershop quartet. In "Amphibians", a young boy spends a night alone on an island as a rite of passage from childhood to adulthood.
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.
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.