Plays & Poetry

The much-anticipated first collection from Eric Gregory Award winner and a contributor to Carcanet's New Poetries VIII anthology.

In Ger Reidy's debut short story collection, he offers a series of powerful, chiseled tales by turns funny, bleak, and compassionate. The recipient of several national literary competitions, Reidy has also been awarded residencies sponsored by the Irish Arts Council and Mayo County Council.

The Rathmines Writers Workshop is Ireland's longest continuously running writers' workshop and is now into it's 29th year. This anthology was edited by Ger Reidy and is the 30th publication by Swan Press.

A gorgeous, heart-warming anthology of poems about love and romance selected and illustrated by Chris Riddell.

A gorgeous, heart-warming anthology of poems about love and romance from award-winning illustrator Chris Riddell.

Though as yet little known in English-speaking countries, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is the finest German poet of this century and one of the greatest lyrical writers in the history of Western literature. Also included are Rilke's prose LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET in which he counsels a younger colleague and expounds his own literary ideal.

These ten letters by Rainer Maria Rilke speak directly to the young, offering unguarded thoughts on such diverse subjects as creativity, solitude, self-reliance, living with uncertainty, the shallowness of irony, the uselessness of criticism, career choices, sex, love, God, and art (which is only another way of living, Rilke writes).

'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.' This title features profound and lyrical letters the author wrote to a young friend with advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.