"This book is a collection of postcards, in verse form, from some of the un-mapped places in life that I have found myself. hopefully you will find the pieces as...
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...
In an era of climate catastrophe and corporate agribusiness, meat has been decisively made over. Urbanites across the West are called upon to look at the animals we eat, and...
What makes a good listener? There are a number of commonsensical ideas about what constitutes doing it well — patience, tolerance, availability, responsiveness, lack of moral judgement — but is...
The pressure we’re under. Most people would break under the stress of injecting themselves with grey market hormones, and that’s the least of our worries. We find that part easy....
Vincent lives on his own somewhere in the Irish midlands. He spends his days watching horse racing and old westerns on TV. But when two young women move into the...
State, in Relation is a publication that responds to the Constitution of Ireland as a historical document and as a present-day living text outlining the evolving legal relationship of citizen...
As if nothing could fall: Essays on monuments takes us through distant vistas and past worlds, monolithic structures and forgotten ideas. These seventeen new personal essays, from some of...
In the good seats: Essays on film is a collection featuring some of the most talented writers working today, setting their sights on what’s so alluring and moving about film...
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...
What is it about animals? – those creatures that keep us company, a figure in a memory or folktale, the shadowy presence in a photograph, or an ancient drawing on...
The photographer, filmmaker and theorist Allan Sekula (1951–2013) was one of the most significant media intellectuals of the last fifty years, renowned for a sequence of compelling anti-capitalist artworks. This...
On the outbreak of the war in Gaza in October 2023, Melani McAlister began to use her journal to track the rapid development of the conflict and the parallel evolution...
After arriving in New York in 1938, Austrian photographer Lisette Model quickly found stunning early success. Her photographs graced the pages of renowned magazines and were exhibited at the Museum...
‘In the mid-1930s, Walter Benjamin posed the question of the relation of art to the dominant representational technology of his time: photography and film. To return to the artwork essay...
Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact...
Walter Benjamin’s essay of cultural criticism ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ has become a ‘classic’ text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond....
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....
In this second volume, Val O’Donnell continues his imaginative and highly original response to Ulysses, transforming Joyce’s modernist masterpiece into a series of vivid, performable ballads. Drawing on over fifty...
Should art be determined by political ideals? In recent decades art institutions have sought to embody liberal values of universal equality and social justice. This move toward greater inclusivity has...
After distributing Das Ende for 2 years with over a 1.000 sold copies internationally, Paula Tudela has now published her second book titled Hard to Explain. This story starts where the...
Explorations into Visual Reproduction, Perception and Randomness Moving Through Images questions how images and (visual) reproductions of physical surroundings influence our gaze and perception. This two-part publication was developed as both...
On December 18, 1974, Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend Peter Hujar to write down everything he did one day. Hujar met Rosenkrantz at her apartment on 94th street the following...
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...
The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone – the pleasures of aggression and violence are just as essential. As such, racism is particularly...
Juri Velt explores potential scenarios emerging with the disappearance of a segment of society in a mountain town. Three tales unfold in the voids left by its departure, unravelling the...
Throughout their history, architecture exhibitions have embraced different approaches and constructed other modes of action within the discipline, playing a pivotal role in disseminating, diffusing, and experimenting with architectural culture....
Poetry meets code in Spectre Code, a collection of poems written in Python. Each piece functions as both script and artwork, blending generative sound, visual elements, and experimental poetics. (This...
Each one started, each one started, each one started is a publication designed to contextualise and expand upon the ideas explored in Christopher Steenson’s artwork The Long Grass (2022–2024). Taking...
Burrowing through interconnected passages and the space between words, a prayer book is an intimate and reminiscent collection that excavates personal, mundane things and uncovers within them an emotive depth...
Sculpted with scattered rhyme across free-verse poetry, Diet of Fleas is a garden where fear and agony lurk but do not rule. In their debut poetry collection, Aurelie Stutz illustrates...
written in the years following a near-fatal car accident, afterdeath is a vivid and personal collection of poetry, traversing between experimental, free-form writing and the traditions of haiku and flâneur....
Embrace subjectivity. Nomadologise. Unclog digital neuroses. Reconnect with the ancients. Atomise. Overflow with information. Make love piratic. Plagiarise with the girls. Weave webs of excess. Become a girlblogger. What does...
A collection of three novellas, Midnight Movies tells stories of today’s young people navigating their desires, ambitions, trauma and friendships. In Penetralia, the newest resident at an underground commune in...
Peeing in public is a battle, played out on fields economical, political, technological and sexual. Moreover, it is one battle fought continuously within sphere of gender; gender equality, gender identity...
“Diasporic Threads platforms a stunning selection of works by contemporary Black women textile artists and is rich in critical insight and historical context.” - Ferren Gipson, author of Women's Work:...
A vital and tender record of the quilts that have shaped history — and the hands that stitched them. Throughout history, marginalised communities have turned to the collective intimacies of...
Tatreez — elaborate hand-embroidery — is an ancient Palestinian craft characterised by remarkable beauty and complexity. Beginning with an introduction to the regional diversity of historic Palestinian dress, Rachel Dedman...
In this play—a perpetual stew—the so-called “accessories” and “props” of artists take center stage. No longer silent or subordinate, these objects speak, question, and disrupt, revealing the often-invisible infrastructures that...
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...
Celebrate the darker season with new stories and essays from the best and most exciting Irish writers. When shadows grow longer, when expectation weighs heavy, how do people in Ireland...
In Kononova’s terms, war does not end when the noise of explosions fades. It lingers, saturating the land and embedding itself in the silence of devastated landscapes. The Radiations of...
Panta Rhei is an old philosophical saying by Heraclitus that can be interpreted as “all that is observable flows continuously.” In the spirit of this reflection, Daan Paans (NL) attempts...
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...
Vol 11 of Winter Papers Ireland’s annual arts anthology is published by Curlew Editions. It will offer fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual arts, along with craft interviews and in conversation...
Nowhere in Cycladic culture has love been defined in a singular all-encompassing manner. Forces of attraction, affection, connection, and relation were ascribed in a plurality of ways. Through symposia in...
Epidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land, other species, and each other. This book presents fragments of disease management in...
What would be of contemporary culture if we did not recognize the impact of migration in cultural and socio-economic crossings? This book explores human migration in different times, contexts, and...
Today, many feel fettered by insomnia, untouchability, and restrictions on movement. Looking for a more holistic approach to bodily and mental health, this book explores architectures and elementary forms of...
Tourism does more than transforming spaces and forcing emotions: its geographies also conceal a persisting power that captures the imagination. In their operational sturdiness, tourismscapes appear intractable and inert, making...
Surrounded by unyielding waters, islands have long served as ideal sites of banishment: places where those deemed unfit to exist within the political order, are cast away. Today, at the...
Lamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the...
The Mechanicos (meaning ‘machinic’ in Greek) is a folk dance performed by the sponge divers of Kalymnos island, recording the crippling effects of decompression sickness and paralysis caused by increasing...
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...
Originating as an ancient tribal practice serving as rites of passage, symbols of religious devotion or marks of bravery, tattoo art has slowly grown into an essential fashion item, a...
Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity (Dublin: Grand Canal Publishing, 2024) is a special limited edition illustrated 78 page book, which reclaims Lucia Joyce (only daughter of James Joyce) as an artist,...
This publication is a floral fantasy by a visual artist. Anthropomorphising the flower and using the metaphor of a petal being pulled from a flower and floating away is an...
A publication made as part of Glossaries for Forwardness, a multi-platform exhibition by Marie Farrington at the Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin, 26 April – 22 September 2023, curated by...
Trigger: A publication for reflection on photography by FOMU, published by Fw:Books Assemblies brings together photographs, essays, and archival material that reimagine what socio-political gatherings are, could be, or might become...
Counter-Print proudly presents the 10th anniversary edition of this iconic book, brimming with an exquisite collection of monogram logos from around the world. Published by Counter-PrintHardcover320 pages115 × 220 mmISBN...
This compilation showcases the limitless possibilities of letter forms transformed into 3D objects of art. Explore the fusion of the familiar and the extraordinary as designers push the boundaries of...
Anna Kulachëk is a New York-based graphic designer, originally from Ukraine. Kulachëk’s distinctive style, characterised by simple typefaces, primary colours, and basic shapes, has earned her widespread recognition in the...
Stockholm Design Lab: 1998–2025 celebrates the work of one of the world’s most respected design agencies, renowned for creating meaningful, high-quality designs rooted in Scandinavian tradition and guided by the...
When it comes to designing effective signages that are also appealing to the eye, a delicate balance needs to be struck. On one hand, a wayfinding system has to avoid...
Amid the sea of listening options available in our digital world, it often takes more than a good beat or catchy lyrics for artistes to stand out among their peers,...
Now back in print in an updated edition, this stunning, award-winning visual odyssey encapsulates the essence of Tom Waits’ enigmatic persona and Anton Corbijn's distinctive photographic style. Spanning over three...
From mediations on long-distance love to elegies for labouring workers, Nazaret Ranea’s debut poetry collection explores what it means to honour our roots while creating a life on our own...
morsels is a formally ambitious multi-sequence debut collection from Belfast poet Susanna Galbraith. Galbraith’s innovations on the long poem are engaged with concerns about the impact of climate change, environmental...
A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids. God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith...
This Is Not a Cookbook uniquely blends memoir with food writing alongside evocative lithographic artwork. The vignettes in the book chronicle Manouchehri’s childhood growing up in Tehran in the '80s...
This hardcover monograph on Lee Welch, serves as the first comprehensive publication on the artist, documenting and expanding on his Oedipus exhibition at The Complex, Dublin. The 64-page volume will...
In a series of evocative vignettes, celebrated Iraqi poet Majed Mujed lyrically traverses the fraught landscapes of beauty, longing and resistance in a country at war. The Book of Trivialities, originally...
How do we foster trust in our public spaces, communities, and each other? Trustmaking explores how the youth can lead the way in reimagining cities through collaboration and creativity. This book introduces...
Architecture has historically functioned as both shelter and a tool for power that can establish dominance and exclusion, often failing to accommodate diverse needs and ways of being. In this...
‘Simplicity of life is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement : a sanded floor and whitewashed walls, and the green trees ; or a grimy palace amid the smoke...
‘The house of the future will be designed as a ship is designed, as an organism which has to function properly in all its parts. A whole row of ambiguous...
In the face of the global challenges of the future, there is one decisive factor that is rarely mentioned: massive urbanisation. Today, around two-thirds of the world’s population lives in...
Tolka is a Dublin-based biannual literary journal of non-fiction, publishing essays, reportage, travel writing, auto-fiction, individual stories and the writing that falls in between. They publish and promote work that...
Emerging visceral and triumphant, To Wake The World is a plea for authenticity and vulnerability in an epoch dominated by superficiality. In her fourth collection, poet Carys Maloney layers her...
OBJECT / OBJECTION draws from the painting archive created by interdisciplinary visual artist Yuka Kobayashi between 2020 and 2024. The title itself embodies the dual nature of the project; as...
Hiders is a memoir-based nonfiction picture book for adults, exploring the relationship between text and image. The book examines how storytelling can fill in the gaps of memory, and write...
The inaugural issue of Research Files, The Scar as Archive, explores concepts of marginalised flesh from a cultural, historical, political and personal perspective. By examining the marginalised body as an...
Design is broken. Young and not-so-young designers are becoming increasingly aware of this. Many feel impotent: they were told they had the tools to make the world a better place,...
To inhabit a home means to leave traces; it is a place of self-expression, a place of one’s own. We collect and display what we choose: a print, a chipped...
Textiles have long been part of the fabric of disabled people’s lives and history. In common with banners of the women’s suffrage movement and trade unions, disabled activists have embraced...
Art Work, by photographer and writer Sally Mann, offers a spellbinding mix of wild and illuminating stories, practical (and some impractical) advice, and life lessons.Written in the same direct, fearless,...
Beacon is a travelogue which traces Niamh Seana Meehan’s explorations around the coast of Ireland with her dog, Olive. A collection of meditations, sketches, and photographs offer Meehan’s reflections on...
Part how-to manual, part history, and part socio-political critique, Artist-Run Europe looks at the conditions, organisational models, and role of artist-led practice within contemporary art and society. The aim is...
Few modern buildings in Dublin capture the imagination like the US Embassy. Designed in the 1950s by a young American architect, John M. Johansen, it opened to acclaim in May of 1964....
"I was living and working in a dairy farm in Ibaraki prefecture during autumn.They were quiet, strict, but abundant days.Lake is a collection of paintings, photographs, and poems created during...
Drift, a handmade artist book by Lebanese artist Rhea Karam. Known for her poetic engagement with urban walls, Rhea transforms fragments of the city into layered visual narratives—cutting, spray painting,...
A new edition of the seminal classic exploring the fate of migrant workers First published in 1975, this finely wrought investigation remains as urgent as ever, presenting the life of...
Why should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist’s intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political...
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a story of love and resistance by one of our era's foremost novelists From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms...
Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths of contemporary architecture No longer does it suffice to judge a building solely by its appearance; it must be measured and certified....
The 2025 Verso Radical Diary is a week-to-view planner for keeping track of the year ahead. Alongside illustrations and book excerpts, it features significant radical dates from throughout history—such as...
WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE IMAGE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? Hito Steyerl is one of the most celebrated artists of our time. Her work,...
How to design the world: creating spaces for interplay Everyone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are...
The essential guide to this new landscape of NFTs, Web3, Crypto and DAOs and a warning of the political consequences of what happens when platform capitalism comes for the money...
The story of how you created internet culture and why it matters Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes:...
Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really...
Drawing on over 25 years’ experience talking to artists, Ben Luke conceived and launched the A brush with… podcast in 2020 to explore the influences, rituals and disciplines of artists...
When Martin Parr was fourteen, his teacher wrote in a school report that he was ‘utterly lazy and inattentive’. This became the title for the biography of the photographer who...
This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects.Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of...
Horse of Venus is a visual exploration of colour, the body, carnival, sexuality, Brazilian identity, mythology, and the emotional stages of a romantic relationship, featuring a series of watercolour drawings...
Spaces are often shaped by and also reflect the people who inhabit them. These photographs of church buildings in Northern Ireland look at the people who shaped them. A people...
Mount Venus Nursery is multiple gold-medal winning nursery known across Ireland and beyond for its plants and for its ethos, growing hardy perennials outside in the Dublin Mountains. 2025 marks...
Climate breakdown, environmental justice, urban expansion, metropolitanisation. A multiplicity of dynamics are driving rapid infrastructural transitions, transforming cultures of movement. But these changes are all-too-often narrated at scales that surpass...
In a small seaside village in South Kerry, Martha Knox develops an unlikely career burning emotionally charged objects and photographing the results. Her clients travel from far and wide with...
‘TÍRDHREACHA BEO / LIVE LANDSCAPES’ is an audiovisual publication that emerged from time spent wandering around rural County Limerick between 2023 and 2025, engaging with its landscapes through musical improvisation,...
The Lure of the Image explores the seductive powers of contemporary digital forms of photography: How do images bait or beguile us, capture and control us as they circulate online?...
Mama Coca reframes the narrative built around coca and examines its prohibition, a plant that has been part of the heritage of South American native communities for thousands of years....
Poetry Ireland Review is a highly-regarded 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 visual...
belvedere: a structure designed to command a view; from the Italian bel "beautiful" and vere "to see" The Belvedere is produced by Dublin City University's M.A. in Creative Writing programme, a class that convenes...
"I find myself in the dusty basement of an impressive old house, filled with astronomy related antiques and mysterious objects. I am meeting yet another meteorite collector who presents to...
Back to Basics, Vol. 2: Extended Recipes for Ecological Photo Chemistry is the second volume of Andrés Pardo’s research into low-toxicity photographic developers. Once you have mastered the foundations featured...
Tucked inside a handmade paper box, this catalogue of the current show "Cartas al director" by Cristina De Middel connects the recent projects of the Spanish author: Journey to the...
Gerry Cahill is an Irish architect whose built work is primarily in housing, and primarily in Dublin. Most of Cahill’s homes were delivered with local authorities, voluntary organisations, or approved...
Ten years after the Independence Referendum, Irish Pages asks diverse Scottish writers of distinction – established, mid-career and new – to think about their country, and take stock of the current state...
The Use of Photography recounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive...
Perennially on the outside, Brian has led a solitary life; he works at Camden Council, lunches every day at Il Castelletto café and then returns to his small flat on Kentish Town Road....
This publication highlights a 3 year project and series of works by James L Hayes in collaboration with artist and composer Peter Power. The Score is a multidisciplinary artwork exploring the heritage,...
All at Once Collapsing Together is a monograph of Caoimhín Gaffney’s work across film, photography, and writing, which uses fiction to imagine new ways of relating to the natural world....
500-piece jigsaw puzzle of Alex Prager’s artwork The Extras (2019), from her body of work Play the Wind . Finished puzzle dimensions: 450 x 450 mmBox dimensions: 245 x 190...
Booklet of 18 blank notecards, featuring 9 images (each appearing twice) from Alex Prager’s Western Mechanics exhibition, 2024. Enclosed in a die cut sleeve. Limited run.Sleeve/each notecard: 155 x 100 mm
Photography Is presents more than 3,000 phrases that define one of the most democratic and ubiquitous of all art forms. Mirroring the ambiguous and untrustworthy nature of photographs themselves, each...
Jennifer Walshe is an Irish composer, vocalist and artist, and Professor of Composition at the University of Oxford. With a background in experimental music, she has over a decade of experience working...
A new publication by Stereo Editions featuring two extensive interviews with filmmakers Annik Leroy and Julie Morel.“This conversation was recorded in Brussels in November 2023. It was an attempt to...
The Island Weights is a collection of poems by Sky Hopinka, published by Stereo Editions as a letterpress limited edition. Relating to the four water spirits holding the earth in place,...
The Wilhelm Gustloff was a cruise ship named after the assassinated leader of the Swiss Nazi party. It was sunk on January 30th 1945, hours after leaving the port of...
A revelatory glimpse into the future of photography, one where the very nature of how images are created is fundamentally transformed by artificial intelligence. An invaluable roadmap in a new...
With beautiful colour images and a chronology of 25 years of contemporary art exhibitions in Belfast, this new book is a very special insight and illumination of the Golden Thread...
Publication accompanying the exhibition at New Art Projects, London, by Brian Teeling and Dorje de Burgh, featuring commissioned essays by Una Mullally and Sam Moore. The exhibition, as documented in...
Few subjects can evoke the entwinement of the corporeal, personal, and political so succinctly as that of hair. Throughout history, hair has been charged with significance and is resonant with...
The late Tongan scholar Epeli Hau‘ofa wrote of the Pacific Ocean as a ‘Sea of Islands’. Rather than imagining a scattering of small, defined island states, he sketched a vast...
Crowd Work is the venturous debut by writer Sam Furlong. With candour, its poems detail experiences of a body’s living, materialities it inhabits and shares with bodies and other species....
The poems in hum it on the phone are made up of fragments from interdisciplinary artist Audrey Roger's diary entries, notebooks, descriptions of dreams she has had, as well as...
Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown suggests that unidentifiable things in photographs point towards larger questions about the limits of knowledge. In a world that seems to give up...
In Irrational, artist Francesco Jodice and curator Francesco Zanot dissect the rise of irrationality in modern life and society through an extensive and thought-provoking array of visual case studies. Addressing...
‘Monogamy is not dismantled by fucking more or by falling in love simultaneously with more people, but by constructing relationships in a different way, relationships that allow us to fuck...
Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto starts with what it is not: a socio-economic argument against ageism, celebrating the ‘elderly’ as economically viable. Instead, Simon(e) van Saarloos presents a radical critique...
Tolka is a Dublin-based biannual literary journal of non-fiction, publishing essays, reportage, travel writing, auto-fiction, individual stories and the writing that falls in between. They publish and promote work that...
A collection of translated historical sources and essays on International Women’s Day 1979 in Iran, initiated by Katayoon Barzegar, and edited by Niloufar Nematollahi, and Jose Rosales. Spanning the breadth...
A collection of translated essays by feminists in Iran that attempts to imagine beyond walls of oppression by navigating the intersections of writing and the everyday becomings of a feminist...
Citizen Artist 2016-2018 is a publication that reflects on the process of the studio 468 award programme, CITIZEN ARTIST. It demonstrates the richness and diversity of each CITIZEN ARTIST awardees’...
The People’s Shed is a reflection of artist, Evelyn Broderick’s, residency at studio 468 ‘A Radical Imagination’ and her collaborative arts project. This publication reflects on Evelyn’s pedagogical arts practice...
Photobook Conversations foregrounds discussions on and around a range of positions, practices and politics that shape the landscape of contemporary photography and publishing today. With generosity and willingness to share...
Poetry Ireland Review is a highly-regarded 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 visual artists. Poetry...
𝑻𝒖𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒔 is a casebound publication showcasing Kevin Mooney’s most recent series of works commissioned by and exhibited in Luan Gallery. Tuberclerosies includes a curatorial essay by Aoife Banks, curator of...
How does the world form itself? How does it create itself as a world? And how do we understand the role of the visual in this regard? Most responses to...
From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the origins and legacy of blended musical genres by focusing on twelve dynamic collaborations. From Alice Coltrane working with...
Although often considered to be a fault or a glitch in the system, the event of hallucination is central to the models of image production generated by artificial intelligence (AI)....
To build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. From steel bolts to concrete blocks to wood flooring to polyester insulation panels, every single component of the built environment is the...
Challenging Institutionalization explores the heterogeneous processes of PhD and postdoc supervision in the arts to formulate shared horizons. The publication is structured around a series of lectures and conversations that took...
