Poetry, Plays & Short Stories

Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live on radio from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor Show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holiday poems …

Compiled in honour of pioneering poet Eavan Boland and Catherine Rose, Ireland's first feminist publisher, Washing Windows? is a wide-ranging and insightful collection of poetry by 100 contemporary Irish women writers, including E…

The complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant and influential writers of the twentieth century. Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly …

Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series …

This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is available separately in Faber Paperbacks. The selection includes the whole of The Wast…

The wing-shaped, wind-borne seeds of the ash-tree might be an image for poems in search of their readers. This selection, based on thirteen individual collections, represents Longley’s unusual range as a lyric poet.It shows …

From Wales to Croatia to the depths of the ocean, these five achingly tender stories of (dis)connection are bursting with emotional vulnerability. A child attends his first football match, buoyed by secret magic; a young seahorse …

In the summer of 1967 Greta Garbo comes to Donegal. Ireland is on the verge of violent change. Two couples are on the verge of parting.A woman tries to save her family, while a girl tries to save her future. Seemingly above it all…

A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their communi…

The Magic Border is the debut book from Mercury Prize-winning musician and poet Arlo Parks, combining never-before-seen poetry, song lyrics and beautiful, intimate images from collaborator, photographer Daniyel Lowden. Featuring t…

With a foreword by Kat Delacorte, author of With Fire in Their Blood‘It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood’On a bleak, stormy night in Scotland, three witches prophesy: Macbeth will be a lord twice-over and Macbeth w…

'How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure you haven't already died in the earthquake and are just living in the afterlife?' In her highly anticipated English-language debut, Yan Ge explores isolation in …

A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms. A scientist discovers the secret to unlocking instant happiness, with unexpected consequences. In an America where everyone is equal every which way, a tennage boy pl…

With a foreword by Becky Albertalli, author of Imogen, Obviously and Love, Simon. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ Hermia loves Lysander. But she must marry Demetrius or be condemned to life in a convent…

With a foreword by Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet? ‘I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest’ Love, deception and discord are flourishing in the court of Messina. Sweet, innocent Hero a…

With a foreword by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, author of Ace of Spades. ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’. The King of Denmark is dead. When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, meets the King’s ghost and discovers he was murdered, h…

Banished from her ambitious uncle’s court, the lovesick Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin, Celia. Disguised as the handsome shepherd Ganymede and simple shepherdess Aliena, the two soon meet the dashing Orlando – forced…

This new collection brings together First Love, The Calamative, The End and The Expelled; these four novellas are among the first major works of Beckett's decision to use French as his language of literary composition. Rich in ver…

This is a book about survival. This is a book about love.Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, charts the rebuilding of a self in the wake of extremity. How, it asks, can we reima…

"I am not asking you to agree with me. In fact, I'd be happier if you didn't. I am afraid of self-censorship in a place of supposed radicalism like a liberal arts school because I am afraid that one day we will all be too afraid o…

A stunning collection of nine stories that teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. Mothers and Sons is a sensitive meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Ps…

A wildly inventive story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar. The Last Dream brings together for the first time twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and…

Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.The New York stories, most of which take place around the year …

Louis Mulcahy was born in Wexford in 1941. He is a well-known potter who sings and has four collections of poetry, of which one is in Irish. The first three were published by An Sagart Publishing. A Potter's Book was brought out i…

J.M. Synge's extraordinary play about a young man on the run, and his unexpected elevation to folk hero. A stranger, Christy Mahon, arrives in a village bar in County Mayo in the West of Ireland, claiming to have killed his father…

A profound, luminous masterpiece by one of Ireland's greatest playwrights. This edition was published in 2023 with a beautifully redesigned text and cover, to coincide with the National Theatre' revival. It is 1936 and harvest tim…

Kleinzahler's poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and intersecting and spilling over into each other. Whether the voice embodied is that of…

'Though unmarried I have had six children,' Walt Whitman claimed in a letter late in his life. The title poem of Mark Ford's third collection imagines the great poet's getting of these mysterious children, of whom no historical t…

A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternit…

The Confidential Clerk was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 1953. 'The dialogue of The Confidential Clerk has a precision and a lightly felt rhythm unmatched in the writing of any contemporary dramatist.'…