Plays & Poetry

Clare Pollard cocks a snook at Dr Johnson's all-male Lives of the Poets in chronicling her own life and theirs in her Lives of the Female Poets. These portraits and self portraits offer glimpses into the poet's own everyday life all whilst in conversation with female poets through the ages.

An expansive retrospective from a T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet.

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter.

Everyday lives conjure a tapestry of fabulism and domesticity. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago.

This beautifully illustrated collection contains the greatest poems from the greatest Irish poets.

A Neat and accessible introduction the life, work and times of W. B. Yeats.

What is it like, as a daily, lived experience, to feel like a fraud or a fake? asks Kate Potts in this book. What can the imposter phenomenon - a sense that our true abilities and achievements, and other core aspects of our identities, are unreal, undeserved or mistakenly bestowed - tell us about who we are and how we relate to one another?

This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's poetry for the general reader, and for the student of contemporary literature. A representative group of early poems is included; and there is a selection from the Cantos up to and including Drafts & Fragments (1969).

Wayne Power is a writer, poet and spoken-word artist based in Waterford City. His work has come to prominence in recent years, both locally and nationally, through his performance art and his debut collection of poetry, Everyone’s a Star after Midnight, published in 2020.

The Quotable Oscar Wilde has been updated to join our growing list of deluxe classic minis! Featuring a faux leather binding with embossed type and illustration to match the distinctive series look, Oscar Wilde includes a new enlightening introduction, as well as a poem and short story reprinted in full to complete this new deluxe edition.

Includes plays "An Inspector Calls", "Time and the Conways", "I Have Been Here Before", and "The Linden Tree".