Plays & Poetry

The Forward Prize-winning collection by Karen Solie, a poet 'by whom the language lives'

The poems translated here were written between the 7th and 12th centuries AD, making them the oldest vernacular poetry in Europe. Latin, which arrived with Christianity in the 5th century and brought a script, was the only other language in play, although there are occasional loanwords from Norse and other tongues.

War Horse

Rachael Stanley’s thoughtful and considered debut collection ‘Back To Infinity’ speaks to us from a hard-earned place of compassionate distance.

A beautiful & elegant new play from Norway's greatest contemporary writer, Jon Fosse. Adapted here by British playwright Simon Stephens, this version opened to great acclaim at London's Young Vic theatre.

This posthumously published Collected Poems is a remaking of Anne Stevenson's earlier Poems 1955-2005 (2005), expanded to include poems from her final three books, Stone Milk (2007), Astonishment (2012) and Completing the Circle (2020), drawing on 16 collections.

Dolores Stewart imagines and writes in the two tongues of Ireland.