Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into artwork and creative expression into cut-throat competition, why do so many artists try anyway? In this eye-opening...
'Frustrated Writers' Group, Vol. 2' is a group anthology of writing and visual art from this artists' co-operative. The publication emerges from the group's twice-monthly writing workshops at the Unit...
Pig Pen is a collection of drawings by Rory Mullen. Taking the form of an artist’s sketchbook, the drawings act as notes, designs and proposals for future works. Drawing is...
Over the past 4 years artist Vanessa Daws and curator Rosie Hermon have been working on Swimming a Long Way Together a project inspired by the 20th century pioneering swimmer Mercedes...
'Lesbian Art Circle' is a publication and event series based in Dublin, Ireland which centres the visual and written work of queer women. The themes of 'Lesbian Art Circle, Volume...
'Ishango' is a small, independently published ethno-mathematical feminist revision of the Book of Genesis, as inspired by the works of Claudia Zaslavsky. The chapbook is illustrated by Irish artist Rachel...
'Sitting on the Sidelines' is the most recent poetry collection published by Femmesocial Press. It is a collection of enduring poems written by Mase Okor encapsulating the experience of young...
Text of the play No Woman is an Island designed as an art book by Éilís Murphy / Folded Leaf. The play, a performance lecture inspired by woman’s tireless pursuit of...
Poetry Ireland Review is a journal of poetry. Published three times a year, the Review includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets, essayists, critics and...
Poetry Ireland Review is a journal of poetry. Published three times a year, the Review includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets, essayists, critics and...
A True Record is the creative response to Marlay House by Grace Wilentz and Jane Cummins with documentary photographs by Aisling McCoy. Marlay House, dating to the 17th/18th centuries, is...
Commissioned by The Lab Gallery in response to the exhibition Hypnagogia, A not so final resting pose is a collection of texts varying from email threads to essays to outdated...
This collection consists of eighteen new ballads written by Val O’Donnell and set to airs of music which are referred to in Ulysses or in other works of James Joyce....
Observation Alters Observed is a publication that aims to shift our perspectives and generally expand our understandings of light (visible and invisible) and waveforms through film photography, illustrations and metaphoric observations. —...
For this addition to the Digressions series Virginie Yassef decided to discuss the process of adapting The Veldt with Mathieu Copeland and Philippe Quesne. This double interview shows an artist,...
In a culture dominated by prescriptive rationality, and the reduction of language to functions, Looking for a Sign champions the intersectional practices of art and magic, exploring their capacity to...
Health and Safety for Women explores the issue of gender data bias; the ways in which data collection favours men over women. Using the visual language of the 'Health and...
This collaborative project between visual artist, Brian Teeling and arts writer, Jennie Taylor explores Crawford Art Gallery’s buildings and its immediate surroundings through a printed publication which is populated by...
The Gubu Dolls Saga contains a novella set in the Gubu Dolls universe and a section explaining the concept behind the Gubu Dolls art project, which is on permanent public...
This book was published by Kevin Kavanagh in association with mscltr- on the occasion of Fancy Situations, 6th - 29th June 2024. 'Hello again, 30 years old now. Fancy Situations is...
The Pig’s Back (named for Donegal’s Muckish mountain and for the phrase ar mhuin na muice, to be in luck) is a literary prose journal that aims to bring the...
We're very excited to be featured in this wonderful collection of bookshops throughout Europe and the America's. A must have for lovers of bookshops! After a successful first round, Bookshop...
This limited edition publication was produced on the occasion of the 2023 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. A companion publication, with essays on the drawings of...
Sonder is an Irish print literary journal publishing short stories, creative nonfiction, flash fiction and poetry. In Issue IX, these stories centre around the theme of madness and the idea...
Malaysia ah? Yes! We speak Manglish lah! focuses on Malaysia and Manglish, emphasising the nation’s diverse, multi-ethnic, and multicultural society. Malaysia’s main ethnic groups—Chinese, Malays, and Indians—speak languages such as Mandarin,...
Nathan G. Lowry is an Irish artist based in Co. Dublin, Ireland. Process in Progress: Faces, Spaces and Figures features a selection of Lowry's favourite artworks from over the years. Within this...
'The pressure is on for me to conform. There have been some things happening recently. Strange weather, weird vibes. Unsettling neighbourhood relations. An argument over a right-of-way. A tussle with...
In On Slaugther, artist Klara Hobza uses scientific drawings to accompany Markus, a dropout in the forests of Sweden as he slaughters a sheep. The best impression of the book...
Tripple Dribble is a long term project by French artist Julia Borderie. It was initiated in collaboration with basketball players in Montreal (2015) and Val-de-Marne (2018, with Céline Bouffard) and...
By Olivier Bertrand; Clémence Fontaine; Chloé Horta eds. The question posed by the title of this book seems even more relevant for young artists today than it did in 2020, when...
'Cruising Archaeology', which shares its name with the Instagram account @cruisingarchaeology, is a carefully curated project that sees artists (who remain anonymous) reconstitute and repurpose items that have been discarded...
Tolka is a biannual literary journal of non-fiction: publishing essays, reportage, travel writing, auto-fiction, individual stories and the writing that flows in between. Full line-up includes: Kimberly Campanello Tim MacGabhann...
"For Girls' Night, I travelled around Ireland to photograph teen discos, and to try and capture the anticipation of girls as they prepared for them. In a way, I wanted...
This anthology is a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago, and hosted by the Danish Arts Foundation at...
Over the summer of 2021, writer and artist Nathan O'Donnell spent several weeks on the Tipperary shoreline of Lough Derg, exploring its history, ecology, and topography and gathering stories about...
“The sea water heals me spiritually, physically, and mentally – every day, however cold, I swim – sometimes alone, sometimes with a friend, sometimes with the crew. Nearly always, I...
Hoods is Michael Goldrei's 2nd self-published book, and features a collection of photos taken in Cuba in 2017 of the weird & wonderful car hood ornaments he saw there. Much...
This book opens out from the middle with accordion folds to the left and right – one for each hand. The ten pages have ten fingerprints and the names for...
Back to Basics: A Guide to Ecological Photo Chemistry marks a pivotal moment in photography's journey towards sustainability. Crafted with meticulous attention to environmental impact, it's not just a guide...
We know that celebrities can make great muses: think of the work of Richard Phillips, who has painted an entire series of works inspired by Lindsay Lohan, Robert Pattinson, and...
Kitty, the cute and mute cartoon protagonist of Hello Chaos, a Love Story: The Disorder of Seeing and Being Seen, embarks on an ill-fated endeavour to win the eyes of her estranged...
How To Soften Corners is a playful how-to guide to hospitality. It tells the story of an art project/college canteen called Luncheonette which operated at the National College of Art...
Jana Müller’s new artist book, Falscher Hase/Mock Rabbit opens by shedding light on criminal investigations in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), offering an artistic exploration of historical narratives and...
Richard Nairn has spent a lifetime studying – and learning from – nature. When an opportunity arose for him to buy a small woodland filled with mature native trees beside...
Voice Tracking is a text commissioned by Muine Bheag Arts in response to Grass Roots 2023. Grass Roots took place in August 2023 and included contributions from artists Cóilín O’Connell,...
The photograph is not just an image but an event, one in the longer sequence of a photographic moment. Challenging given definitions of photography and of the political, Ariella Aïsha...
You spin me round is a collection of essays, an essential mixtape that takes elements of music – songs, performances, albums, gigs – as points of departure. The writers reflect...
Artists have been experimenting with film and pushing the boundaries of the moving image since the earliest years of the medium. Gaining momentum with the emergence of the expanded cinema...
In 2019, the previously unseeable became seen when the first image of a supermassive black hole was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project. Taking its initial inspiration from...
During the past half-century, contemporary art practices, theories and criticism have engaged intently with notions of the postnational. Nonetheless, the presence of the nation-state and nationalisms in art history remain...
This publication was conceived on March 15, 2021, when more than one hundred thousand people marched across Australia in a series of March 4 Justice protests calling for gender equality...
this is no longer entertainment is formed entirely out of untreated anonymous or pseudonymous text found in the open comments sections of media websites and other digital platforms. It was composed...
Contemporary architectural criticism tends to focus on the theories and concepts behind buildings. Yet there is much to be learned by venturing beyond the library walls to contemplate the real...
Who decides what happens after sex? The last decade has seen many significant changes to the laws governing women’s reproductive rights around the world, from liberalisation in Ireland to new...
Publication accompanying the exhibition The Blue Rooms at the City Assembly House, September 2023.The Blue Rooms is a series of projected images in domestic rooms in houses in Dublin City,...
Words about Words playfully explores the language of lexicography, using 26 captivating collages to bring to life esoteric terms, from abecedarian to zeugma. Each book is unique by virtue of...
Fly the Flag is a handmade artist’s book documenting a participatory art project by Éilís Murphy. Climate Camp was held in a field beside the Shannon Estuary near Tarbert, Co Kerry,...
The act of translation is concerned with the slippages, peculiarities, and mysteries of language. Particularly with poetry, readers are invited into a whole new world of meaning and possibility, and...
In Stanisław Lem’s novel Fiasco (1986) the attempts to communicate with the inhabitants of a distant planet fail because of the human crew’s inability to distinguish the members of...
GOT DAMP was a project developed by artist Avril Corroon from research into living conditions as a galvanising issue for communities in exercising their political voice. At the heart of...
Lighting the Archive, which went online in 2020, is an open-ended series of conversations with artists like Annette Kelm, Elfie Semotan, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Ulrich Wüst about photographic techniques, structures...
Open your eyes to a new world view with 100 women and nonbinary photojournalists’ stories from behind the lens. 85% of photojournalists are men. That means almost everything that is...
In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical status of photography. It must, she insists, be understood in its inseparability from the many catastrophes of...
A unique, boxed set of 30 instruction cards by Marina Abramovic to teach you this legend of performance art's method for reaching a higher consciousness and confronting life's challenges. Using...
Since man first walked the Earth … in heels, no other art form has wielded as unique an influence on pop culture as Drag. Drag artists have now sashayed their...
Densely filled with reproductions of newspapers, magazines, mimeographs, news-sheets, pamphlets, and other ephemera, this book investigates the Italian scene during the turbulent years between 1966 and 1977. These revolutionary printing...
It Reeks of Radio is a book-length poem composed entirely from fragments of communication around historical (pre-1980s) RTÉ Radio programming - the result of poet Christodoulos Makris' year-long engagement with...
When one speaks of the beauty of Mother Nature, lush leaves and bright blooms in the sun often come to mind. However, there is so much charm to be found...
A world without plants is a world without life, both literally and figuratively. Besides forming the very basis of human survival on Earth, they are also an important source of...
To keep up with the demands of creative practitioners of today, the original PALETTE books have been redesigned into the PALETTE mini series, a flip-friendly, compact source of colour-themed inspiration...
Although it is human nature to tiptoe around the uncomfortable, some artists are inspired by the unsettling to create intriguing works of art that push the boundaries of normality and...
This richly illustrated catalogue celebrates two genre-defying artworks by Jesse Jones 'Tremble, Tremble' and 'The Tower.' Includes contributions from feminist activist and writer Silvia Federici, curators Tessa Giblin and Tara...
Top Irish art critic Cristín Leach weaves history and art to present us with the diverse perspectives of twelve key figures from the rich 200-year lifespan of the Royal Hibernian...
Logotype mini is the definitive modern collection of logotypes, monograms and other text-based corporate marks. Featuring more than 1,300 international typographic identities, by around 250 design studios, this is an...
A product can be manufactured in many ways, but most designers know a handful of techniques only. With specially commissioned diagrams, case studies and photographs of the manufacturing process, Making...
Do you dream of a career that makes a difference? Are you ready to make the switch to more meaningful work or to take your passion project to the next...
This third book in the popular Do More Art series exposes how the simplest of writing tools is in fact the key to an entire universe of artistic expression. From...
Through a curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Filmmakers on Film reveals what matters most to the masters. Discover how the giants of filmmaking - from Sofia Coppola to...
The Visual History of Type is a comprehensive, detailed survey of the major typefaces produced since the advent of printing with movable type in the mid-fifteenth century to the present...
In this, the first product design book devoted purely to styling, Peter Dabbs helps students and professionals to understand how to style their own consumer-focused products. Providing a clear and...
Across photography, sculpture and painting, a new wave of Black artists is challenging persistent tropes in art and wider society to depict a richer portrait of the lives of Black...
What if you could sit down with your favourite artist and ask them anything you liked - Life? Work? Inspiration? Based on new interviews and archival material from a huge...
This unparalleled and wide-ranging book surveys the history of applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing,...
We all engage with digital user experience design and user interfaces every day - if you are reading this on an e-commerce platform then you are doing it right now....
Symbols play an integral role in almost all branding programmes. This book explores the visual language of symbols according to their most basic element: form. Over 1,300 symbols from all...
This innovative and unique book is a visual guide to the buildings that surround us. Architectural features are pinpointed and labelled on images of buildings so that, unlike with other...
The fifth edition of this indispensable history of photography spans the history of the medium, from its early development to current practice, and providing a focused understanding of the cultural...
Creating a brand identity is a fascinating and complex challenge for the graphic designer. It requires practical design skills and creative drive as well as an understanding of marketing and...
Think you know photography? Think again. Through a carefully curated selection of quotes and images, this book reveals what matters most to the masters of photography. With 50 iconic images...
Vol 9 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual arts, along with craft interviews and in-conversation...
Focail na mBan is a gathering of Irish words for vaginas, vulvas, clitorises and periods with illustrations from 29 artists. It is meant as a catalyst for those willing to...
Contemporary mythologies are out there, in the urban chaos. Monsters, giants, constructions, spirits and creatures of all sorts tell the cities’ everyday life struggles if one is willing to listen...
Humans lack the capacity to comprehend geological time, a breadth unfathomable from our biological perspective. Our callous extraction of resources negates the patience of geomorphology. The Burren’s karst landscape instinctively...
This second publication in the Exchange Series, Dublin Exchange responds to a specific moment in the city’s architecture history. In 2021, architect Niall McCullough (1958–2021) died. McCullough was one of...
The augmented reality work "Mixed Signals" consists of scannable watercolors that unfold a lively dimension on the mobile phone. The thick cardboard pages of the book are perfect for this....
The accompanying book to the video for the Lyon Biennial 2022. Do humans take themselves too seriously? After all, they consider themselves the most intelligent beings on earth. They claim to...
IT WOKE ME FROM MY SLEEP is a new monograph of recent work. It opens with a wonderful essay by Cristín Leach and closes with an in-conversation text with Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll....
Co-funded by the European Union through Creative Europe in the context of FUTURES Photography Platform. Trigger Issue 5: Energy consists of thirteen contributions (essays, artist contributions, conversations) which engender possible ways...
Housing Unlocked: Ideas from a Living Room is the companion book which gathers the ideas, ambitions and debates of the award-winning Housing Unlocked architecture exhibition. Housing Unlocked is a collaboration...
From award-winning author Oein DeBhairduin, Twiggy Woman is a collection of ghost stories rooted in the oral tradition of the Irish Traveller community. Like a flickering lamp, these eerie tales...
‘A Table of Books in Ballybeg’ gathers most of the Irish projects produced by Coracle, a small publishing press working from the townland of Grange, west of Clonmel in County...
Em was a sheepdog who never lived far from where she was born in Cahir, County Tipperary. She had a sense of place and a gentleness of temperament, and a...
Reduced due to water damage on cover An essay on the specificity of its subject. In order that Les Nymphéas might be accommodated in the Musée de l’Orangerie in 1927,...
A text book of wrappers and label over prints about the current timetable for the Bus Eireann No.7 bus running from Cork to Dublin and vice versa. Published by Coracle PressEdition of...
Global awareness of climate change is increasing, and the scientific evidence is incontrovertible: an environmental crisis is upon us. Art and Climate Change presents an overview of ecologically conscious contemporary...
Re-imagined as a series of 1-star trip advisor reviews, this publication revisits John Muir's seminal memoir My First Summer in the Sierra, the ecologist's selected diary entries from his journeys...
Mythologies by Petra Palkovacsova is a reference to the recent trends in publishing; rewritings of classical myths. Although the collection does not focus on mythology, it deals with fairy tale...
Between 1970-73 tenants throughout Ireland stopped paying rent in protest against rent increases, poor housing conditions and a rising cost of living. Their eventual victory was described in The Irish...
Accompanying a series of solo collaborations in 2020, this publication offers the first comprehensive and global perspective on Jeremiah Day's work as an artist, performer, researcher and teacher. As it...
Douglas Crimp (b. Coeur d’Alene, USA, 1944; d. New York, USA, 2019) was one of the most influential art critics, curators, and AIDS activists of his time. His writings on...
Douglas Crimp (b. Coeur d’Alene, USA, 1944; d. New York, USA, 2019) was one of the most influential art critics, curators, and AIDS activists of his time. His writings on...
Living Locally selects entries from a daily journal written over five years about rural life in and around a farming valley in Tipperary, to the north of the Knockmealdown Mountains. With...
A collaboration surrounding Maud Cotter's altered hotwater bottle sculptures, referring in turn to the dynamic of Boccioni's work of the same title. Published by Coracle PressEdition of 200Hardover36 pages151 x...
A small anthology of the writings of Tim Robinson, together with a previously unpublished essay 'Geometer'.
Published by Coracle Press Softover64 pages200 x 138 mmISBN 090663007X
'Gertrude Stein’s sentences Descriptions of Literature were written by hand. Her line length was not made by any particular decision. The length of her lines was determined by the width...
18In the work of Erica Van Horn, books collect and transform remnants, remembrances, remainders and reminders. From fragments that might otherwise be forgotten, she makes new inventories and series in...
The Printed Performance Brian Lane Works 1966 – 99 Brian Lane’s unique contribution to small-press publishing began in the mid 1960s at Gallery Number Ten in Blackheath, South East London....
Play Book is the new collection of poems by Irish poet, Maurice Scully. His writing began in the early 1970s, and since 1981 he has published 10 books of poetry...
An assembly of speculative essays, reviews, interviews and collected statements, its concern is with the recent history of the book and the idea of publication arising from its occurrence in...
Papers of Susan Howe, American poet. The collection consists of Howe's literary correspondence, poetry manuscripts, notes and typescripts for readings and talks, personal and working journals, recordings, research files, and...
Living Locally No.12 With age, Tom Browne has given up his building jobs. Now he works on small houses in his shed. He uses real building materials whenever possible, as...
A collection of more of Living Locally, some seen as postcards, from the ongoing series which continues as a translation of the vernacular speech of where the author lives. Published...
The second book from Coracle of William Minor’s poems, after 'tree on the outside' from 2010. Here, by conjecture and statement surrounding the artist’s life and work, he presents an interior...
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? is the fourth book in the annual series A Series of Open Questions published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg...
The last two copies in stock are reduced in price due to marks on the covers. The exposed and elusive soul is the essence of these texts. To relish, little...
Broken English Goodbye brings together ES Kibele Yarman's illustrations and poems on departure and detachment, produced between the years 2015-2020. 'Broken English Goodbye is an assemblage made up of 20 fragments of a...
E.S. Kibele Yarman’s new book invites the reader for a serene and calm read, or should we say, “an afternoon nap.” The poems in the Paperwork Hotel are presented with...
'There are many good reasons to disappear from society. There are many bad reasons to want to. There are many good ways to disappear from society and there are many...
The Beginning The End is a collection of quotes taken from 212 classic and b-fiction books, and involves writing one book with two parts: The Beginning and The End. The...
'The title AsemiQuads can be seen as a contraction of 'quadratic drawings with short asemic statements'. The series was created in the period between October 2021 and June 2022. My asemic writing...
EVER GIVEN by Rindon Johnson is the artist’s latest collection of poetry and visual art, examining the contentious relationship between work and title. Johnson’s titles, which range from paragraph-long philosophical investigations...
Unpayable Debt offers a black feminist reading of the political architecture of the global present. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred, in which an African American writer is transported...
In 2021, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal recorded an intimate conversation about the Mediterranean at their Parisian home: “There are many Mediterraneans: the geographical, the historical, the philosophical... the personal,...
Our present is defined by contemporaneity—the interconnection of heterogeneous times, histories, and temporalities. These many and various times do not merely exist in parallel with one another, simultaneously. Rather, they interconnect...
Titled after Soft Cell's version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track, Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense...
Dan Graham was a contrarian. His art confronted viewers with a multiplicity of possible perceptions and intersubjective experiences. Some Rockin’ was his last project and—through conversations with friends, artists, architects, curators, and former assistants—articulates his sensitivity...
Roee Rosen’s film Kafka for Kids is set as the pilot episode for a TV series that perversely aims to make Kafka’s tale “Metamorphosis” palpable for toddlers. In its title,...
With a long-term commitment and an open-minded approach, Belgian artist Vincen Beeckman challenges norms. Through personal conversations, this book offers a deeper understanding of Beeckman’s creative process and takes you...
Santiago Sierra is perhaps best known for his infamous ‘remunerated actions’, in which he hires the poor and desperate at minimum wage to undertake pointless and degrading tasks. They include prostitutes...
This essay examines the ubiquitous presence of Venus in the archive of Atlantic slavery and wrestles with the impossibility of discovering anything about her that hasn’t already been stated. As...
We have entered a phase of radical reconfiguration of our methods of learning, of perceiving history, of sharing knowledge. manuel arturo abreu, a LatinX artist and writer of Dominican descent,...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
Commissioned by Kandis Williams’ Cassandra Press for its Artist Zine Series, this work is the written component of Penance for the Hound of Gubbio. Through the parable of Saint Francis...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
Published in 2021 on the occasion of LAXART’s 'The Absolute Right to Exclude: Reflections on and Implications of Cheryl Harris’ “Whiteness as Property”', a Cassandra Press exhibition. Cassandra Press was...
A poetry zine by queer Black authors & Collective X on the occasion of Cassandra Press' LUMA exhibition in 2021. Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams...
Published in 2021 on the occasion of California African American Museum’s An Unfolding, a Cassandra Press exhibition. Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
Featuring… The Effects of Blackness: Gender, Race, and the Sublime in Aesthetic Theories of Burke and Kant, Meg Armstrong, The Blackness Within: Early Modern Color-Concept, Physiology, and Aaron the Moor...
Featuring... Notebook scans, Romantic Webs, Suffering, Emotional Fields, Emotional Capital, Eva Illousz, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism, Virality and Promiscuity, Robert Payne, What Makes Online Content Viral? Jonah...
