Plays & Poetry

Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets. This new dual-language selection is drawn from his collections Cupla Siamach an Ama/The Siamese Twins of Time and Gra fiar/Crooked Love, and includes the sequence 'La da raibh/One day', adapted for a dual-language radio feature with music by Dana Lyn broadcast on RTE in 2021.

During the early years of her literary career Dorothy Parker wrote more than 300 poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. This is a collection of the 122 remainder poems, which she failed to collect and whose very existence has been unknown to most people.

Building on our first year of publishing for Yellow House Publishing Ltd. Our Second issue of New Isles Press collection of resident writers from across Ireland and the UK.

Abigail Parry's second collection was supposed to be about intimacy: what it might look like in solitude, partnership and collective responsibility. Instead the poems relate to pop music, etymology, surveillance equipment and cervical examination, church architecture and beetles. Anything except what intimacy is or looks like.

Illuminating and authoritative treatise on 'how a poem works', from the multi-award-winning poet, editor and professor of poetry - now in paperback.

A primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. Suitable for students and readers of poetry, it explains how poetry works by bringing into view the hidden order of specific poems.