Plays & 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.

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

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.

Walker Illustrated Classics is a new series which brings together some of the best-loved stories ever told, illustrated by some of today's finest artists. These exquisitely designed books, with their magnificent words and glorious pictures, are a pleasure to read - and re-read. The classics have never looked so good!

A legendary animal, the Sasquatch is hunted by many but seen by very few. These philosophical reflections about the disappearance of species, both real and imagined, can also be read as a dirge for a species, culture, or language in irreversible decline.

Published 2021.

Published May 2021