New Frontier

The New Frontier brings together new writing from the Irish border in one collection of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. Its many contributors, drawn from some of the island's leading writers, let the variety of their voices show what the border actually means.

Partition has returned to international attention now that the border separates the European Union from the United Kingdom. The collection asks what that division means in the twenty-first century for the people who live along it, and what it means to be Irish, Northern Irish or British in the modern age. It also considers what life is like on the threshold between a kingdom and a republic.

The anthology invites writers from border areas to respond to the region and its history of division through literature, approaching the subject imaginatively and by instinct. Its pieces write about the land, the body and everyday lived experience in a part of Ireland that is complex and often misread, with the aim of rescuing the border region from years of being wrongly understood.

Contributors include Conor O'Callaghan, Darran Anderson, Garrett Carr, Luke Cassidy, Nidhi Zak, Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Michael Hughes, Séamas O'Reilly, Pat McCabe, Lias Saoudi, Maureen Boyle, Emily Cooper, Dean Fee, Jill Crawford, Annemarie ní Chuirrean, Peter Hollywood, John Kelly, Michelle Gallen, Marcel Krueger, Eoghan Walls, Orla McAlinden, Bronagh McAtasney, Mícheál McCann, Jess McKinney and Maria McManus.