Plays & Poetry

John F. Deane is the founder of Poetry Ireland, the National Poetry Society, and of its journal The Poetry Ireland Review. He is also founder and first editor of The Dedalus Press. Translated in many languages, he has won many prestigious Irish and international awards for his poetry and in 1996 was elected Secretary General of the European Academy of Poetry. His recent work includes his memoir Give Dust a Tongue published by Columba Press in 2015 and Achill: The Island publishes by Columba Booksin 2018.

The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad is a remarkable testament to what survives when voices fade, and to the intimate power of poetry to keep our histories, our languages, and our selves alive.

Poetry.

The Writers : a sense of Ireland : new works by 44 Irish writers / selected and edited by Andrew Carpenter and Peter Fallon ; with photographs of the writers by Mike Bunn

Published in 2019. This is the first anthology to be published in Ireland which focuses on prose written by and about working people and their experiences, cares and concerns. It is a companion volume to 'The Children of the Nation', an anthology of working people’s poetry published in 2019. Like that book, it is supported and sponsored by a number of trade unions.

With An Apology for Our Survival, Michael Farry enhances his already excellent reputation as craftsman-poet of the highest order.

Set in Dublin, this play follows the doings of Cat, in her late teens and temping as a nightclub hostess. She tries to jolt-start her life by blowing up her boyfriend's car and hopping into bed with a 50-year-old married man before settling for companionship with her best mate Sophie.