One of Ireland's most internationally celebrated authors returns with a new feminist collection of poetry exploring the lives of women told through the language of men who exploited them. Despite the somber subject matter, McGuckian's collection is full of humor and light.

New writing from 250 Irish writers to celebrate 250 years of Hodges Figgis bookshop. Writers include Edna O'Brien, John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Marian Keyes, Colm Toibin, Neil Jordan, Joseph O'Connor, Donal Ryan, Medbh McGuckian, Kit de Waal

Boyle's luminous poems are intimate portraits of confined and unsung lives, furnished with a sensuous exactness. Hermione, mourning her lost children, is cheered by the "blushing crimson tips" appearing in her winter garden. Birds are significant reminders of life, colour, and wry defiance in these self-assured poems of hard-won sustenance.

This collection includes three plays by Celia de Freine: Anraith Neantoige, Coirin na dTonn, and Tearmann.

Steeped in classical myth and Anglo-saxon lore, using words as esoteric as gynandromorphic or glossarist, she twists Latin and Greek sources under a Hellenistic `lens shift on the coppery gods' of Belfast and Down - Medbh McGuckian

Mary Turley-McGrath's new collection is grounded in contemplations of her natural surroundings. Clearly aware of the darkness overshadowing the beauty of the natural world in our time, the poet confronts us with the full and paradoxical image of human experience.