Description
The first part of Thomas McCarthy’s book collects his recent short lyrics. Part Two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a FitzGerald (‘Geraldine’) family that has tilled the soil of County Waterford, absorbed its language and history, and sent young men back to British regiments, particularly the Irish Guards. Focusing on his Gaelic-speaking soldier-poet, Sir Gerald FitzGerald, and his man-servant, Paax Foley, McCarthy creates a fully imagined landscape of men escaped from Irish neutrality to fight against Fascism. Moving from ballad to prose poem, from mid-century Gaelic verse to County Waterford recipes, McCarthy mixes competing loyalties and readings of Irish history to create a single Irish narrative of exile and bereavement, of battles won and love lost and found.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Never Feed a Grumpy Reindeer 
Spiritlands 
Song of Kieu: A New Lament Nguyen Du 
Steep Tea 
The Mystical Rose 
This Is Yarrow 
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods 
Will Burns 
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes 
In Reality 
The Arches 
Blue Horses 
Soho 
The Twelve Cats of Christmas 
Felicity