Plays & Poetry

Since publishing his first collection of poetry, The 50 Year Old Poet in 2017, Pat Doran has completed two further collections, Gentle Soul and Beautiful Sky. His poems have been featured in several publications in various countries including Canada, the United States, India and Australia as well as closer to home in Ireland and the U.K. This collection features 120 of his favourite poems from his first three books. The title symbolises the journey his poetry has taken him on.

Mary Dorcey is a critically acclaimed Irish poet, short story writer and novelist. She was awarded The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1990 for her short story collection, A Noise from the Woodshed. She is the author of the bestselling novel A Biography of Desire and is an elected member of the Irish Academy of Arts and Letters.

Mary Dorcey's bestselling novel Biography of Desire (Poolbeg) was published in 1997 to critical acclaim and has been reprinted three times. She has published fve volumes of poetry and her work is now taught on Irish Studies and English Literature courses in universities in Britain, Europe, the United States and Canada.

An exquisite collection from a poet at the peak of her powers, A God at the Door spans time and space, drawing on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to elevate the marginalised. Extending the territory of her zeitgeist collection Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, these new poems traverse history, from the cosmic to the quotidian.

Tishani Doshi's fifth collection is a lyric field guide to grief and resilience, where attention becomes a form of devotion, and intimacy, a quiet resistance. Her poems navigate the deep entanglements between environmental loss, ancestral memory, the slow transformations of ageing, and the devastations of war.

In this collection, two of McGahern’s short stories, ‘A Slip Up’ and ‘All Sorts of Impossible Things’ have been dramatised for performance.

In this collection of poems you will find explorations of the magic of childhood, of family history and of difficult personal times that are always interlaced with humour.