Plays & Poetry

'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.

The collection features disquieting songs of a mutable self alongside poignant elegies, interior journeys and subtle (and not so subtle) ripostes to the legacy of Trumpism - while elsewhere encounters with ghostly feet and tongues of fire consort with riffs on Baudelaire, Rilke and Laforgue.

"Broad in scope, generous in spirit and wittily accompanied by Risbridger's commentary"Sarah Perry, author of The Essex SerpentSet Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry: a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe, both living and dead.

A captivating and wide ranging anthology of Irish Poetry.

Two tragi-comedies set in Roche's southern Irish home town of Wexford. "The Cavalcaders" follows the life of a smalltown shoemaker who amuses himself singing with a barbershop quartet. In "Amphibians", a young boy spends a night alone on an island as a rite of passage from childhood to adulthood.

Published to mark 20 years of Bewley’s Café Theatre The seven plays: Fred & Alice by John Sheehy The Importance of Being Honest by Billie Traynor The Quiet Land by Malachy McKenna Cirque des Rêves by Katie McCann All honey by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Normal by Caitríona Daly Wringer by Stewart Roche

Poetry.

New collection from acclaimed Dublin poet. Deceptively simple, The Dark Art of Darning is an emotionally complex collection in which carefully distilled poems reveal their insights slowly.

Learn a poem a week for a year and experience the mindful joy of reading it aloud