Plays & Poetry

The purity of fire that burns the body with the birth of words, also creates an illumination that makes poetry live, grow and bloom. That life has a rhythm of its own. Pratyay's poetry is unique in the same way, as it has a beautiful synthesis of rhythm-music-painting.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magnificent tragedy of love, jealousy and explosive racial politics.

When fourteen year-old Ronnie is sent home from naval college accused of stealing, his father vows to prove his innocence.

Burning Season is a book about fire and survival, climate change and nature's defiance. Yvonne Reddick's first book-length collection combines poems with nature diaries and lyric essays to trace an intriguing family history in the oil industry.

The title of "Thumb's Width" indicates the book's preoccupation with the miniature. Sketching the childhood relationship between two brothers, the poems often settle on small objects - shrimps, cigarettes, "cat's eyes", plastic soldiers - to which childhoods may become attached.

A collection of poetry which draws on a lifetime of experience and makes a direct appeal to the readers senses. It reflects the changes that are happening within the author's own world and the world as a whole.

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.