This volume combines new collections by established authors Deirdre Brennan and Maighread Medbh with a collection by emerging author Nuala Ni Chonchuir. The diversity of their work reveals much skill and insight with astute observations-sometimes comical, sometimes sad-on the human condition and the world around us.

A new poetry collection, at the age of 88, by a writer who first became interested in writing in the 1940s and 1950s when she met famous Irish writers Peig Sayers and Blanaid Salkeld. Over the subsequent 70 years she has fine tuned her feminist inclinations into a celebration of women who changed the world, such as Enheduanna, the first named poet in the world who laid claim to her work, the witches of Ghana, and the Cambridge women astronomers who were known as the Harvard computers.

This full-length play, in both English and Irish, is a fantasy, set in a timeless place-it could be the past or the future–which intentionally melds some present day aspects within a classical or mythical atmosphere (a mix that is consciously mirrored in the language). The English language title 'Mutagenesis' refers to the generation, usually intentional, of mutations, a title borrowed from genetic science with a healthy degree of artistic license and a nod in the direction of science fiction.

In this contemporary drama, five women go to a house party for a cosmetics sale. The women soon learn the cosmetic manufacturer has a special formula laid out for the evening, which they insist on being followed. They claim that their products have curative properties since they are based on herbs and earth energy. Dissatisfied with the formula, the women break the rules with consequences they couldn't have imagined.

These selected poems (in English and Irish) cover four decades of this acclaimed poet's work and explore themes including birth and women's affairs, nature, love and imagination, war, ageing and death.

Staying Thin for Daddy is the debut English-language short story collection from Brennan, one of Ireland's leading writers in both the Irish and English languages. The book was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Collection Award.