Audio and Video

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Click on the links below to play a selection of MP3 audio and video files of Salmon poets reading their work.  Please note that audio files will begin to play automatically when you click on each link.  You can also download the audio MP3s.

Audio

John Corless

• John Corless reads "Abandoned Railway" from ARE YOU READY? (Salmon, 2009)

• John Corless reads "Half Eleven Mass" from ARE YOU READY? (Salmon, 2009) on Liveline, RTE Radio 1, hosted by Joe Duffy, October 3rd 2008.

• John Corlessreads the title poem from ARE YOU READY? (Salmon, 2009) on Liveline, RTE Radio 1, hosted by Joe Duffy, October 3rd 2008.

Nessa O Mahony

• Nessa O'Mahony reads "My First Love", a poem from her verse novel In Sight of Home.

David Cavanagh

• David Cavanagh reads "For Agnes Mary" from The MiddleMan

• David Cavanagh reads "It's So Much Like Missiles" from The MiddleMan

• David Cavanagh reads "Neil Armstrong Shoots the Moon" from Falling Body

Andrea Cohen

• Andrea Cohen reads "Terrible in Math" from Long Division (2009)

• Andrea Cohen reads "To an Ant Fallen in the Salt Shaker" from Long Division (2009)

• Andrea Cohen reads "Explanation of Autumn" from Long Division (2009)

J.P. Dancing Bear

• JP Dancing Bear reads "Prospero, King of the City" from Inner Cities of Gulls (Salmon, 2010)

• JP Dancing Bear reads "West Nile" from Inner Cities of Gulls (Salmon, 2010)

• JP Dancing Bear reads "What Language" from Inner Cities of Gulls (Salmon, 2010)

Patrick Hicks

• Patrick Hicks reading "Lipstick Traces" from Finding the Gossamer

• Patrick Hicks reads "Not Springing Forward in Barcelona" from Finding the Gossamer

• Patrick Hicks reading "Spelling Lessons" from Finding the Gossamer

• Patrick Hicks reads "After the First Performance of Hamlet" from This London (Salmon, 2010)

• Patrick Hicks reads "Outside the British Library" from This London (Salmon, 2010)

• Patrick Hicks reads "The Poet of Liverpool Street Station" from This London (Salmon, 2010)

Seamus Cashman

• Seamus Cashman reads "Elegy for a Dead Jellyfish" from That Morning Will Come: New & Selected Poems

• Seamus Cashman reads "Sacred Places" from That Morning Will Come: New & Selected Poems

• Seamus Cashman reads "That Morning Will Come" from That Morning Will Come: New & Selected Poems

Dave Lordan

• Dave Lordan reads his poem "Death, or 20p". Recorded at The Whitehouse Poetry Revival, July 4th 2007.

• Dave Lordan reads the title poem for The Boy in the Ring (2009)

Knute Skinner

• Knute Skinner reading "A View from Lahinch" from Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007.

• Knute Skinner reads "The Cow" from Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007.

• Knute Skinner reading "We Go to the Village for Milk" from Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007.

• Knute Skinner reads "Attendance" from Stretches (2002)

• Knute Skinner reads "The Window Seat" from Stretches (2002)

Emily Wall

• Emily Wall reads "Calling" from Freshly Rooted (2007)

• Emily Wall reads "In defense of cloudy days" from Freshly Rooted (2007)

• Emily Wall reads "River of Life Gospel" from Freshly Rooted (2007)

Joan McBreen

• Joan McBreen reads "A Walled Garden in Moylough" from WINTER IN THE EYE: NEW & SELECTED POEMS.

• Joan McBreen reads "My Father" from WINTER IN THE EYE: NEW & SELECTED POEMS.

• Joan McBreen reads "Wild Woodbine", a poem from WINTER IN THE EYE: NEW & SELECTED POEMS.

Patricia Monaghan

• Patricia Monaghan reads the poem "The Butterfly Tattoo Effect" from her collection Dancing with Chaos

• Patricia Monaghan reads "The Poised Edge of Chaos"

Jessie Lendennie

• Jessie Lendennie reads an excerpt from her prose-poem Daughter

Patrick Chapman

• Patrick Chapman reads "Cobain" from Breaking Hearts & Traffic Lights (2007)

• Patrick Chapman reads "Eidolon" from Breaking Hearts & Traffic Lights (2007)

• Patrick Chapman reads "Mnemonic Set" from Breaking Hearts & Traffic Lights (2007)

John Hildebidle

• John Hildebidle reads "The Sunny Southwest" from Signs, Translations (2008)

Ron Houchin

• Ron Houchin reads "At fourteen on the lake with grandfather" from Museum Crows (2009)

• Ron Houchin reads "Reckless sleeper" from Museum Crows (2009)

• Ron Houchin reads "Dog days" from Museum Crows (2009)

Stephanie McKenzie

• Stephanie McKenzie reads "Of Blood and Some True Poets" from Grace Must Wander (2009)

• Stephanie McKenzie reads "Glosses for Theo: An Evangelist Among the Miners" from Grace Must Wander (2009).

Simmons B. Buntin

• Simmons B. Buntin reads "Coyote" from Riverfall

• Simmons B. Buntin reads "Letter from Charles Darwin to His Sister, Catherine" from Riverfall

• Simmons B. Buntin reads "Her Mission of Light", a poem from Salmon: A Journey in Poetry 1981-2007

A.E. Stringer

• A.E. Stringer reads "Ghostward" from HUMAN COSTUME (2009)

• A.E. Stringer reads "Spiny Hitchhiker" from Human Costume (2009)

• A.E. Stringer reads "Wavering" from Human Costume (2009)

Stephen Roger Powers

• Stephen Roger Powers reads "After Her Parade" from The Follower's Tale (2009)

• Stephen Roger Powers reads "Drive My Urn to Dollywood" from The Follower's Tale (2009)

Noel Monahan

• Noel Monahan reads the title poem from The Funeral Game - with musical accompaniment from Laura, Emmett and Martin Cahill

Catherine Byron

• Catherine Byron reads the title poem from her collection The Getting of Vellum

• Catherine Byron reads an excerpt from "Coffin. Crypt. Consumption." from The Getting of Vellum

• Catherine Byron reads "Writing on Skin" from The Getting of Vellum

C.J. Sage

• CJ Sage reads "A Natural History Told while Termites Gnawed the Joists of the Museum" from The San Simeon Zebras (Salmon, 2010)

• CJ Sage reads "Landscapes with Elephant Seals and Umbrellas" from The San Simeon Zebras (Salmon, 2010)

• CJ Sage reads "Sea Canaries" from The San Simeon Zebras (Salmon, 2010)

Richard W. Halperin

• Richard W. Halperin reads the title poem from his collection Anniversary (2010)

• Richard W. Halperin reads the poem "With Biscuit" from his collection "Anniversary" (2010)

• Richard W. Halperin reads "Greystones Bray Walk" from his collection "Anniversary" (2010)

• Richard W. Halperin reads the poem "The Book" from his collection "Anniversary" (2010)

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Video

• Dave Lordan performs an electric rendition of his poem "Fearless" to an ecstatic audience in Dublin. Recorded live at the brownbread mixtape on June 30th 2010. The theme of the night was "Love Stinks". the brownbread mixtape is a FREE monthly gig in The S

• Dave Lordan at the 2010 Flatlake Festival reading "Surviving the Recession" from his second collection Invitation to a Sacrifice (Salmon, July 2010)

• KEVIN HIGGINS reads the poem "Living Proof" from TIME GENTLEMEN, PLEASE. From the film "Rhyming Couplet" (2009), directed by Des Kilbane and produced by Laura Cunningham. Reproduced here with the kind permission of GMIT.

• SUSAN MILLAR DuMARS reads the poem "Poets Are Just Like Everyone Else" from BIG PINK UMBRELLA (Salmon, 2008). From the film "Rhyming Couplet" (2009), directed by Des Kilbane and produced by Laura Cunningham. Reproduced with the kind permission of GMIT.

• SUSAN MILLAR DuMARS reads the poem "Salthill" from BIG PINK UMBRELLA (Salmon, 2008). From the film "Rhyming Couplet" (2009), directed by Des Kilbane and produced by Laura Cunningham. Reproduced here with the kind permission of GMIT.

• MICHAEL S. BEGNAL reads the title poem from ANCESTOR WORSHIP (Salmon, 2007). Recorded 23rd October 2009.

• MICHAEL S. BEGNAL reads "My Role in Society" from ANCESTOR WORSHIP (Salmon, 2007). Recorded 22nd October 2009.

• Dave Lordan | "Tribute to Joe Strummer" | by Radical Picnic

• Paul Allen reads "The Overwhelmed Samaritan" from Ground Forces (2008)

• KEVIN HIGGINS reads "A Brief History of Those Who Made Their Point Politely And Then Went Home" from his collection The Boy With No Face (2005). Reading at Oxfam London.

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