The Interior Act is a movement from terror to a kind of interior place, interspersed with praise, obsession, memory, rant, death, love. Unusual in a poetry collection, Frank Golden explores at length the fracturing actions and memories of an imagined life (JJ) and the fragmented witness of an alter life (Xavier).... more info>>>>>

Angela Greene's poetry speaks eloquently of the coming into being, flourishing and passing away of quiet worlds: the underlying movement of life, which is so often taken for granted. These are poems of deeply lived experience. They delve into the nature of things, roots physical and metaphysical, exposing the heart... more info>>>>>

The latest collection of poems by Anne Hartigan brings us daringly through the minefield avoided by less courageous writers who see Cliche written wherever Love appears. These poems are in the main about love, the fury, the pain, the passion, and the loss that goes with it.... more info>>>>>

Buy these two collections for the price of one... "Michael Heffernan has sustained and amplified a poetry of real intelligence, technical precision, and acoustic splendour. He is a writer who has hit his stride, sure-footed in his craft enough to let imagination run and leap and dance." Thomas Lynch....

Michael Heffernan teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) and co-directs the International Writers' Course at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His book Love's Answer won the Iowa Poetry Prize in 1993. He has received three fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Elkins, Arkansas.

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"There are not many books of poetry of which I can say that I can remember the day, the month, the year when I read them. Rita Ann Higgins's Goddess on the Mervue Bus was such a book. It wasa cold dark winter's day when I read it and it lit a fire in my heart. To me Rita Ann Higgins means a unique line in human warmth.... more info>>>>>

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"Exposing the lies, the posturing and petty cruelties of the powerful, these poems tear away the shameful veils of hypocrisy to bite deep into the very bones of contemporary Irish society. Nothing, or no one, is sacred for Rita Ann Higgins. Utterly without artifice or pretension, her voice is at once strong, angry and acid sharp....

For the past decade Rita Ann Higgins's strong, clear poetic voice has challenged and revitalised literary norms. With her first publication, Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986), she was instantly recognised as a powerful force for change. Witch in the Bushes (1988), followed in 1992 by the first edition of Philomena's Revenge, established her solidly in the public mind....

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Higher Purchase is Rita Ann Higgins' fourth volume and displays her highly developed sense of social awareness. What makes her work so fresh and exciting is its immediacy - she lives in these words, in the pictures she paints in the world in which deep sadness and wry humour co-mingle with the capacity for hope....more info>>>>>

"Absence" is one of those commonpolace words that can prove oddly resistant to definition -- partly because there are so many varying forms of absence, from temporary (going off for a walk around the block) to the most permanent, notably death. The poems in this book undertake the work of defining absence in a number of contexts....more info>>>>>