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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.
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