Plays & Poetry

GLEN WILSON, from Portadown, Co Armagh, is the winner of the 2017 Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing. There are moments here of epiphany and rites of passage where the poet becomes a portal through which events scurry. Wilson finds something enduring in the transitory, picks out signals that often go unheard. — Mel McMahon

In this highly accomplished debut collection Sarah Wimbush journeys through myth and memory with poetry rooted in Yorkshire. From fireside tales of Romany Gypsies and Travellers, through pit villages and the haunt of the Miners' Strike, to the subliminal of everyday - with poems on typists, pencil sharpeners and learning to drive in a Ford Capri.

In We Say We Will, Martha Woodcock’s first collection of poems, she takes us on a journey through the everyday, the exotic, the life-changing and the heart-breaking. Her work has a deep integrity and these poems are filled with an honesty and a directness that make them immediately familiar, yet deeply personal.

A miscellany of prose, poetry and memories. Most of the titles will have been drawn from writing prompts given and selected in Creative Writing Class and group presentation.

This Kildare Collective is a coming together of a number of talented writers and atists in the area. A stunning display of stories, poetry, paintings and drawings that are an ansolute delight in the eye of the beholder.

Adam Wyeth lives in Dublin. His work appears in several anthologies including The Forward Prize Anthology (2012 Faber), The Best of Irish Poetry (Southword 2010) and The Arvon 25th Anniversary Anthology. He was also selected as a Poetry Ireland Review Rising generation poet.

Prize winning Dublin poet.