Larry Stapleton's posthumous collection The Tide reflects on the landscape, nature, the sea and humanity itself- never neglecting the inclusion of the small wonders. Always alert to the 'out of the ordinary things in the day'; strikingly honest and emotionally direct, articulating the response to loss and the pain of loss, with an awareness that we must 'get on again with life'.
Land of the Ever Young is the final volume of a set of three anthologies of working people’s writing from contemporary Ireland published by Culture Matters. It contains thirty stories and poems for children, to help them understand the world around them and give them the confidence that injustice can be tackled, and that the world can be changed.
Strictly No Poetry, Mathews' fourth volume of poetry, and first in twenty years, includes forty-eight new poems and sequences. Collectively they explore themes of religion, sexuality and mental illness.