Plays & Poetry

Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. Shall We Go? is her eighth book of poetry, following her Bloodaxe retrospective, Very: New & Selected Poems (2008) and later collection Track (2014).

An exciting collaboration between Otter-Barry Books and Pop Up Projects, introducing new voices in poetry for 10-14 year olds.

Kilkenny Poet.

The centenary of writer Leland Bardwell’s birth in 1922 provides an opportunity to reassess the importance of a prominent and significant voice in Irish poetry. From a turbulent and restless life lived often on the economic and social margins of the Ireland of the time, her poetic perspective came at a cutting angle, and it is as sharp today as it was when she was writing.