Plays & Poetry

A captivating and wide ranging anthology of Irish Poetry.

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

Poetry.

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.

Learn a poem a week for a year and experience the mindful joy of reading it aloud

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.