Publication | The World Was All Before Them

The World Was All Before Them
Edited by Stephen Connolly
for TULCA Festival of Visual Arts

A new book produced as part of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2022. Commissioned by Clare Gormley and edited by Stephen Connolly, The World Was All Before Them features new work by seven writers: Simon Costello, Dane Holt, Miriam Gamble, Michael Magee, Padraig Regan, Trenna Sharpe and Sacha White.


The World Was All Before Them

  • Introduction by Stephen Connolly

  • By The Lagan by Trenna Sharpe

  • Mostly Full Coverage, an illustrated essay by Michael Magee

  • Six Poems by Dane Holt

  • Mushroom Poems by Simon Costello

  • Of The Suburbs, an essay by Miriam Gamble

  • Echo: An Erasure by Padraig Regan

  • A Poem in Eight Parts by Sacha White

Published by The Lifeboat Press

The Lifeboat Press is an independent publisher of poetry and non-fiction based in Belfast. Their recent publications have included Sure Thing by Paul Muldoon, oh! by Susannah Dickey and The Sensual Cityby Padraig Regan. Queering the Green: post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry, edited by Paul Maddern, was published in 2021.

Available to order here