Die, My LoveIn a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning for family life but at the same time wanting to burn the entire house down. Given surprising leeway by her family for her increasingly erratic behaviour, she nevertheless feels ever more stifled and repressed. Motherhood, womanhood, the banality of love, the terrors of desire, the

where he also co-organises the Over the Edge series of literary events

The first of its kind and packed with fierce poetry

This generous Selected Poems from John Barnie includes work from seven of his previous collections: Borderland (1984)

He now lives in Philadelphia and is Director of Irish Studies at Villanova University

Striking up a new friendship

there is also the artist and poet who has explored the inner life

musicians and writers throughout the Expressionist period and beyond

in ‘pre-Troubles’ Derry

but:/there’s the step

That many of the names in this anthology are instantly recognisable to anyone who has even a passing interest in contemporary Irish literature is testament to that

Liz Quirke

Conor Cleary and Majella Kelly