Plays & Poetry

RTE's Sunday Miscellany returns with a new selection of stories and poems from the last three years of this beloved programme.

The sixth collection from award-winning poet and dramatist Caroline Bird.

Presents the work of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognised as one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century, loved by poets and readers alike.

Life Immediately is a pacy, dynamic debut collection containing all the preoccupations of Lily Blacksell's work, from womanhood, to music, to the natural world and our calamitous dealings with it, to the calamity and comedy of human relationships, romantic or otherwise.

Play version of this novel that was a hit with adults and teenagers alike

'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings' William Blake The best of William Blake's poems in a beautiful new gift edition

William Blake's strikingly original poetic world of myth and mysticism continues to fascinate. This selection represents the full range of his accomplishments, from his haunting lyrics to his political works.

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her country's strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize. The Shadow of Words covers Blandiana's early collections published from 1964 to 1981, completing Bloodaxe's presentation of her collected poems to date in English translation.