Plays & Poetry

Some of the stories poems and prose like the dockworkers might be considered a bit rough and the ballads probably come in to the same category' so when you are finished reading this book of life on the Dublin docks' check between your toes for coal dust.

Originally published in 2020. Poetry.

Paul Durcan examines the work and impact of Irish poets Anthony Cronin, Michael Hartnett and Harry Clifton and places them in a European context. He focuses on Cronin's The End of the Modern World, Hartnett's Sibelius in Silence and Clifton's Vaucluse in this insightful volume.

WINNER OF THE 2014 IRISH BOOK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Cries of an Irish Caveman is Paul Durcan's most inspired and surprising collection of poems. The first section describes an experience in Australia which provides a starting point for reassessing his past relationships and loves.

Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing is an wide ranging and evocative new anthology edited by the acclaimed poet Martin Dyar, with a foreword by President Michael D. Higgins.

Maiden Names won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. It was a book of the year selection in both the Guardian and the Irish Times and was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize.

Subtitled 'a memoir by other means', the new book by Will Eaves - whose previous book, The Absent Therapist, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize - lassoes consciousness, memory, desire, literature, illness, and brings them back home in double file, as prose and poetry.

Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student in need of the right speech for workshop, this title offers an array of speeches from a diverse range of first-class playwrights. Each selection includes a synopsis of the play.