Crossings is the third collection of poetry from Gwyn Parry in which he faces his own native land, his own life, using a language and a form that is simple and yet compellingly intense.... more info

The poems in Still Listening depend on memory and dreams as their inexhaustible source. They describe a sense of living between two worlds - the romantic America of childhood and the folklore of the remembered Irish past.... more info

These poems piece together the narrative of an American family's wrenching migration from a long-evolved culture of farms and mines in Appalachia to an industrial city. The upheaval rivals that of the family's Celtic ancestors who made their way from Ulster and Wales to the New World colonies.... more info

On the Block is narrative, lyrical poetry rising in an arc of tracers from life in New York and Dublin, as well as travels in the South Seas. McNulty's insights into the details of life bring us closer to a real understanding of the immigrant mind... more info

Tenant is a narrative sequence, following the fictional O'Sullivan family through the traumatic famine years, 1845 to 1849. The main character is Rena, whose personal journey through the period represents the shock, struggle, devastation and dubious resolution through death that marked the time.... more info

In an array of approaches as varied as its subject matter, All the Money in the World explores love, loss, music, mystery, tensions, terrors, ecstasies, and endings. By turns lyrical, abstract, anguished, celebratory, humorous and reflective.... more info

In this collection, Jean O'Brien continues to explore the major themes of family and personal relationships which are the hallmark of her work. Her style is honest and direct, calling for a similar response in the reader. This collection confirms O'Brien's status as one of Ireland's leading contemporary poets.... more info

Award-winning poet, short-story writer, novelist and broadcaster Mary O'Donnell's first & third collections of poetry. Unlegendary Heroes includes a journey back to her South Ulster border past, variations on the theme of landscape and travel, and a number of meditative visions of the rituals of love. Nominated for The Irish Times Literature Prizes 1999....

Mary O'Donnell is an award-winning poet, novelist and short-story writer. Born in Monaghan, she graduated in Philosophy and German from Maynooth College in 1977, before undertaking post-graduate studies in German. She worked as a drama critic for some years and in 1994 was writer-in-residence at University College, Dublin. She subsequently completed a residency in Co. Laois and edited the first Laois Anthology of Writing. A consultant editor of W.P. Journal, she is also a well-known broadcaster. She is the recipient of an Arts Council Literary Award. She lives near Maynooth, Co. Kildare.

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