Solar Bones begins from the feeling that the dead may return and traces one engineer's life as a flow of memory. Its unusual form keeps society, family, and loss tightly linked.

It follows a life and its losses in one continuous sentence.

I Read The News Today, Oh Boy traces the brief, dramatic life of Tara Browne. It vividly brings to life the atmosphere of 1960s London and the shape of a figure elevated into myth.

A short life takes shape in the heat of 1960s London.

The Glass Shore is an anthology of short stories by women writers from Northern Ireland, overlaying regional history with women's experience. Its editorial strength lies in gathering many voices into one volume.

It gathers women's voices from Northern Ireland into one horizon.

Red Dirt follows young Irish migrants in Australia as collapse and violence overtake them. In harsh surroundings, responsibility and self-destruction gradually come to the surface.

In a foreign wilderness, the cost of choice is laid bare.

A lifetime-achievement recognition for the Irish poet John Montague.

An award honoring a long career as one of the central voices in Irish poetry.