Plays & Poetry

Offers a celebration of the natural environment that also bemoans its mistreatment at the hands of humans. The collection's long sequence, "A Field Guide to People", is an alpha-bestiary of twenty-six sonnets, each a meditation on a species of flora or fauna that is thriving, endangered, or extinct.

The last word in Planting a Pear Tree is ‘home’, but the book is an interesting mix of nostalgia and future-thought. The poet is acutely aware of ecological change and social complexities, but reversion to history or myth, as in Canute or Manannán, is never an escape.

A prolific and widely published Irish poet, Steve's seventh collection builds on the strength of his previous works, in which everyday experiences and the profound sit side by side with the joys of the creative arts and the darker side to life on Planet Earth.

Theodore Deppe's sixth collection comprises twelve shorter poems, a lyric essay, and a book-length poem that begins with a swim in the North Atlantic after his father's death.

Gardening Leave - new and collected poetry is the first collection from writer and academic Eoin Devereux, and will be available from 451 Editions in Autumn 2025.

Some of These Stories are True seek out the mystery in everyday urban life in a conversational tone, often with dark humour, exploring hints of the extraordinary in the quotidian, using a transverse section of personal experience to explicate universal themes of love, grief, anxiety, the joy of childhood, the vicissitudes of growing up and, ultimately, growing old.