Volume Four is hitting shelves in time for Christmas and will comprise of contributions from leading figures across the arts including; Wendy Erskine, Jan Carson, Eoin McNamee, Dónal Lunny, Mike McCormack.

The Irish annual arts anthology is edited by academic Olivia Smith and husband, Kevin Barry - the award-winning author of novels City of Bohane & Beatlebone, and short story collection There Are Little Kingdoms.

Alibis Bookstore and The Seamus Heaney Centre are hosting a book launch on November 8 in The Harty Room at The School of Music, University Square, Queens University Belfast. The event is free and welcome to all.

A splendiferous literary offering, the book is the perfect stocking present – a collection of Visual arts, Essays, Poetry, Photography, Fiction, Non-Fiction along with in conversation pieces on Film, Dance, Theatre and Music. It’s an immersive experience – a thread-sewn, cloth-covered, hand-finished book with pages printed on 120gsm Munken Pure.

The full list of volume 4 contributors and interviewees is as follows:

Stephen Brandes, Dylan Brennan, Liliana P. Brennan, Jan Carson, Jill Crawford, Danny Denton, Wendy Erskine, Leontia Flynn, John Gallagher, Róise Goan, Selina Guinness, Lisa Harding, Siobhán Kane, Oonagh Kearney, Ben Kidd, Anna Leask, Dónal Lunny, Ian Maleney, Mike McCormack, Eoin McNamee, Yvette Monahan, Bush Moukarzel, Peter Murphy, MYNAMEISJOHN, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Mark O’Connell, Aiden O’Reilly, Rosie O’Reilly, Elske Rahill, Cathy Sweeney, Maria Nilsson Waller.

Published by Curlew Editions, it costs €40. You can purchase the book now at https://winterpapers.com/