Leland Bardwell's poetry is witty, full of sharp intimate honesty, full of truth and surprises. She is a poet who has felt the shocks of our time, the private impacts and the historic changes. It is good to see her work of the decades collected - it has inspired many Irish poets, male and female, and should be much more widely known.' - Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

The White Beach is the fourth book of poetry from one of ireland's best-known literary figures - poet, novelist, playwright and short-story writer Leland Bardwell. This collection charts Leland Bardwell's poetic journey through four decades revealing the individual personal life - damages, struggles - as inseparable from other lives around her with whom she identifies, such as the victims of The Kerry Babies Tribunal, the mental battering of the girl at the centre of the X case and the appalling tragedy at Granard.

Bardwell has always been known as an original wordsmith, honing down her work with an unerring eye, standing her ground uninfluenced by fashionable trends, and one who is not afraid of a humorous touch. This work of forty years shows a wide range of style and complexity.

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