Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007
Edited by Jessie Lendennie

Salmon: A Journey in Poetry 1981-2007 celebrates 26 years of innovative and exciting Irish and international poetry. The organization of the volume is simple: two poems from the poet’s Salmon collection (or collections) and one uncollected poem. Detailed biographical notes for each poet, and a complete bilbiography of Salmon's publications, are also included.

"A treasure-trove of poetry from Salmon. This is one anthology that is worth its weight." Hugh McFadden, Books Ireland

"In this anthology, Jessie Lendennie brings us 318 poems she has gathered along her path from Arkansas to County Clare—and at journey’s end, we want more." Deborah Fries, Terrain.org

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Thornfield: Poems by the Thornfield Pets
Selected & Introduced by Andrew Carpenter

The poets whose work is collected in this vibrant and exciting collection of contemporary Irish poetry belong to a group that meets regularly in University College Dublin. The poems – varied, eclectic and ironic – explore diverse themes and topics, some of them pushing words to their boundaries, others grappling with complex emotions and states of mind. The volume includes three remarkable unpublished poems by the late Dorothy Molloy, a founder member of the original Thornfield Poets workshop. The other contributors are Ivy Bannister, Louise C. Callaghan, Mary Rose Callan, Susan Connolly, Enda Coyle-Greene, Celia de Fréine, Anne Dean, Anne Fitzgerald, Cecilia McGovern, Maggie O’Dwyer, Máiríde Woods.

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Ground Forces
Poems by PAUL ALLEN

I am throwing no phony bouquets when I say that, on reading this, I often felt, as someone once said, like putting my quill back in my goose. Allen manages to be funny, deeply reverent, judicious, and moving all in the same breaths. He is one of the best poets going. Sydney Lea

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Object Found
Poems by Guzstáv Báger

Hungarian Gusztáv Báger is a rare combination of poet and economist. As an economist he is—among others—an adviser to the Hungarian government, and its ministers. As a poet he is widely known and well appreciated in Hungary, while his international reputation is steadily growing with poetry books in German, in French and now in English.

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Catastrophic Chords
Poems by MARCK L. BEGGS

In his third collection, Marck L. Beggs puts forth his most thematically developed work yet. While the first part of the book comprises a series of musically oriented poems about relationships and loss, the second part concerns itself with an extended dialogue between Henry David Thoreau and Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

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Ancestor Worship
Poems by MICHAEL S. BEGNAL

MICHAEL S. BEGNAL is a dual Irish/American citizen, born in the United States in 1966. He has spent many years living in Ireland, and was editor of the Galway-based literary magazine, The Burning Bush. His first collection, The Lakes of Coma (Six Gallery Press), was published in 2003.

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That Morning Will Come: New & Selected Poems
by SEAMUS CASHMAN

Cork born Seamus Cashman is the founder of one of Ireland’s leading literary and cultural publishing houses, Wolfhound Press. He edited two landmark anthologies for young readers, The Wolfhound Book of Irish Poems for Young People (1975) still in print, and Something Beginning with P: new poems from Irish poets (2004).

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Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights
Poems by PATRICK CHAPMAN

Intimate and daring, the poems in Patrick Chapman’s remarkable third collection explore with often searing clarity the naked spaces of love, sex and death. Startling, original, sometimes quietly devastating, this is the finest work to date from a writer hailed as ‘one of the very best modern Irish poets.’

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Conflicted Light
Poems by J.P DANCING BEAR

Using myth, politics, nature, and art, J.P. Dancing Bear asks questions that can only be asked through poetry. These accomplished and various poems feature sure-handed lines and vivid images. J.P. Dancing Bear has an ear for “the inner tones of the world” and an eye that sees “aspens turning into an imitation of fire" and “bullfrog stars hunger[ing] for crickets.” Conflicted Light reveals the vitality of contemporary American verse.
—Natasha Saje

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Catching the Light: Views & Interviews
by GERALD DAWE

?This fascinating series of literary views and interviews illuminate the coming of age of Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe during the fifties and sixties in Northern Ireland, the literary and political worlds he discovered on moving to the Republic of Ireland in the early seventies, and his travels since, in Europe and other parts of the world, shadowed by the violent closing decade of the twentieth century and the beginning of the new century.

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Tethered to the Earth
Poems by TYLER FARRELL

Tyler Farrell was educated by Irish poets, Eamonn Wall and James Liddy in Omaha, NE and Milwaukee, WI, respectively. He is now an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Dubuque (Iowa) and book review editor for An Sionnach. Tethered to the Earth contains human figures in two landscapes as well as the complex emotions evoked when one is far from home. After living and teaching in Northern Wisconsin for two school years and traveling through Europe for five weeks (the summer between), the poet’s view of the world seemed a far bigger place.

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Twenty One Sonnets
by GABRIEL FITZMAURICE
(with illustrations by Brenda Fitzmaurice)

This is deeply indigenous poetry, vitally in touch with a loved community and its experience. Les Murray
These sonnets make the best collection yet of Fitzmaurice’s adult poems. Declan Kiberd
[T]he best contemporary, traditional, popular poet in English. Ray Olson, Booklist
Fitzmaurice is a wonderful poet.
Giles Foden, The Guardian

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Anatomy of a Love Affair (My Life in the Movies)
Poems by MELANIE FRANCES

The poems of Anatomy of a Love Affair (My Life in the Movies) explore the constant interaction between everyday life and art and the imaginary space it provides all of us. In the first section which gives its title to the collection, a poetic sequence retells a real-life love affair from beginning to end, from the encounter to the break-up, through memories of love as it is remembered by the author and through the lens of pivotal and memorable movie scenes that seem to mirror her own experiences.

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In Daily Accord
Poems by FRANK GOLDEN

In Daily Accord presents a selection of short poems written on a daily basis over a twenty month period and loosely based on Haiku and Senryu forms. Frank Golden was born in Dublin and has been living in the Burren, County Clare, for almost twenty years. His first poetry collection The Interior Act, was published by Salmon in 1999.

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The Sky Road
Poems by MARK GRANIER

Mark Granier's first collection, Airborne, was published in 2001. He was awarded an Arts Council Bursary in 2002 and the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize in 2004. The Sky Road continues to explore themes that emerged in the first collection - nature, death, art, love, travel - though here the road, both actual and metaphorical, is a central motif.

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The Mischievous Boy and other poems
by MAURICE HARMON

In this far-reaching collection Maurice Harmon extends the examination of modern Irish life that he began twenty years ago. the mischievous boy exposes the conditions of life in Ireland through various manifestations -- in James Joyce, Thomas Kinsella, and William Carleton.

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To Keep the Light Burning: Reflections in times of loss
by ANNE LE MARQUAND HARTIGAN

To Keep the Light Burning: Reflections in times of loss is a particular book of poetry and prose put together with the aim to be of help to those experiencing loss and grief from death. A collection of poems that could be read at funerals; traditional burials or cremations. Poems for now, when many need a different way to express their loss, and may or may not choose a religious ceremony. Linking this with the traditional ways we in Ireland cope with and honour the dead.

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The Odor of Sanctity
Poems by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Michael Heffernan began writing poems in 1958. His books include The Cry of Oliver Hardy (1979), To the Wreakers of Havoc (1984), both recently reissued by the University of Georgia Press; The Man at Home (Arkansas, 1988); Love's Answer (Iowa Poetry Prize, 1994); The Night Breeze Off the Ocean (Eastern Washington University Press, 2005), along with his two earlier books from Salmon, The Back Road to Arcadia (1994) and Another Part of the Island (1999). His work has earned three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (US), two Pushcart Prizes, and the Porter Prize for Literary Excellence.
He and his wife, Ann, love being in Ireland. They have four grown children, three sons and a daughter.

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Finding The Gossamer
Poems by PATRICK HICKS

Patrick Hicks is a dual citizen of Ireland and the United States, as well as Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College. His work has appeared in scores of international publications including, Ploughshares, The Utne Reader, Commonweal, The National Catholic Reporter, Cimarron Review, Nimrod, and many others. He is the author of Travelling Through History (2005), Draglines (2006), and The Kiss that Saved My Life (2007). Several poems from Finding The Gossamer have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has lived in Northern Ireland, England, Germany, and Spain.

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Time Gentlemen, Please
Poems by KEVIN HIGGINS

"Gifted poets like Kevin Higgins rescue language from the "blatant blather of knaves" in which it is immured, and harness its vitality to tell it like it really is." Tomás Mac Siomain.

"...an extraordinary book... Higgins uses humour, sharp observational skills, and bile, to compose brief, imagistic poems of original mood and rare power, to amuse, move, sadden, and inform. His work ... is undeniably poetry of full integrity, and major Irish poetry, for our time." Todd Swift

Kevin Higgins second collection, following his highly successful first collection, The Boy With No Face (2005).

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Signs, Translations
Poems by JOHN HILDEBIDLE

John Hildebidle studied at Harvard. He taught in a public secondary school for eight years, and then worked as a teacher/dean at Harvard. For nearly a quarter of a century, he has been a part of the English Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spent a year on a Fulbright teaching at University College Galway (now NUIG). His books include THE OLD CHORE (Alice James Books) and a prose collection entitled STUBBORNNESS: A FIELD GUIDE, which won the John Gardner prize from SUNY-Binghamton press. He lives near Boston.

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Poems for My Wife and Other Women
by THOMAS KRAMPF

As the title suggests, these poems seek to delineate the poet’s relationship to his wife and other women. Sometimes, the person to whom the poem is dedicated is left unsaid, so it is up to the reader to decide. Thomas Krampf has published five previous books of poems, including ...

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The Boy in the Ring
Poems by DAVE LORDAN

The Boy in the Ring is the debut collection from a prizewinning author who has already made a considerable reputation through publications and readings. In poems that are provocative, energetic and experimental,  though never obscure, The Boy in the Ring explores themes of violence, self-harm and survival, ranging in focus from schoolyard bullying, through adolescent suicide and addiction, to the wars and terrors of the adult world.

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Lost in the Gaeltacht
Poems by CAROLINE LYNCH

Caroline Lynch is the real thing. Hers is a root language that, like the commonplace wife who plays Medea, takes us far beyond the commonplace. Her world is one where chaos muscles its way into the corners of every safe place. It is a dangerous world which she negotiates through myth, through prayer, through literature. Her poetry, a signalled intention to communicate, to penetrate, is, as she has written, a 'skirmish for freedom'. In the end, her hands are free to accept whatever small beauty that falls into them. In welcoming this volume, I congratulate Caroline Lynch on a fine achievement and wish her well in her poetic quest. Gabriel Fitzmaurice

Caroline Lynch was born in 1976 and grew up in Cork. She won the Listowel Writers' Week poetry collection competition in 2007 and those winning poems make up this slim volume. She lives in Galway and is working on her first full collection.

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The 2007 Edition of
The White Page / An Bhileog Bhan: Twentienth Century Irish Women Poets
Compiled by JOAN McBREEN

The White Page/ An Bhileog Bhan is a comprehensive study of Irish women's poetry published in book form in the twentieth century. It takes the form of an extended annotated directory, including biographical and bibliographical detail on each poet. Poems and photographs, generously donated by the poets themselves, are also included.  Poets born in the Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland, as well as poets of Irish ancestry and non-nationals who have been resident and writing in Ireland for long periods are included. A reference book for students of Irish literature it is also a poetry anthology representing poets who have published at least one collection.

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Big Pink Umbrella
Poems by SUSAN MILLAR DuMARS

Susan Millar DuMars was born in Philadelphia in 1966. She holds an MA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her poems and short stories have been published widely in the US, UK and Ireland. Her poetry was included in the 2004 Anthology I, published by Ainnir; in 2005, Lapwing published a pamphlet of her poems, the well reviewed Everyone Loves Me. Susan's stories have been short-listed for many awards, and in 2005 she received an Irish Arts Council Bursary for her fiction. American Girls, a volume of her short stories, was published by Lapwing in 2007.

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Lost Republics
Poems by ALAN JUDE MOORE

Most of the poems in Lost Republics were written in Moscow. One of the world's great cities, Moscow's immensity extends a strange sort of citizenship to all those who live there, and these poems reflect that state of being; they come from the perception of a Western European living in the capital of Eastern Europe: simultaneously belonging and not belonging.

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Green
Poems by PATRICK MORAN

Green, Patrick Moran's second collection of poetry, shows a poet trying to reconcile his rural heritage with an Ireland in the process of transition. In doing so, these carefully wraught poems explore the implications of leaving: the parting from loved ones; what is left to us; and the scraps we are left with.

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A Father's Day
Poems by PETE MULLINEAUX

"Keen-eyed and lyrical, this superbly crafted exploration of the male identity is both rich and touching in its honesty and vulnerability. We see the poet reflect on what it means to be a partner, a father and a man who has lost a father. Emotional and tender but also humorous, witty and philosophical, this is a brave collection from a wonderful poetic mind. No hat, no horse, no Marlboro and yet -- behold the man." Gerard Hanberry

Pete Mullineaux has taken the long way round before compiling this debut full collection arranged around themes relating to fathers and fatherhood in particular, as well as male identity in general. While the focus is primarily on the male, several outspoken female voices are present. The writing overall experiments with a variety of forms and reflects a quirky but challenging personal-politics, laced with a rich irony and humour.

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Reliquaries
Poems by ANGELA PATTEN

Angela Patten comes into her own in this collection. There is an assurance and deftness to the verse of Reliquaries that manages perspective just so: the domestic interiors of her childhood and youth are set forth with mingled irony and love, as numinous relics that survive in memory and poetry despite the savage depredations of time. There is a radiant sense in these poems of the experience of ordinary working class Irish people and their culture that is completely authentic and honest. — Anthony Bradley, Editor, Contemporary Irish Poetry

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Torching the Brown River
Poems by LORNA SHAUGHNESSY

Lorna Shaughnessy was born in Belfast and lives in County Galway. She lectures in the Department of Spanish, NUI Galway. She has published two translations of contemporary Mexican poetry, Mother Tongue. Selected Poems by Pura López Colomé and If We Have Lost our Oldest Tales by María Baranda, both with Arlen House (2006).

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Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007
Poems by KNUTE SKINNER

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Knute Skinner has had a home in Ireland since 1964. He has taught at the University of Iowa and at Western Washington University, where he was a Professor of English. Retired from teaching, he lives in Killaspuglonane, County Clare with his spouse, Edna Faye Kiel. This book collects fifty years of published work, beginning with poems which first saw serial publication in 1957 and continuing through thirteen books.

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Seaway: New & Selected Poems
by TODD SWIFT

Todd Swift is one of the leading Canadian poets and poetry activists of his
generation. The collection of essays about Anglo-Quebec poetry, Language Acts (which he co-edited with Jason Camlot), was a finalist for the 2007 Gabrielle Roy Prize. He has had four previous collections of poems published by DC Books in Montreal, Canada. He lives in London, England, with his wife, where he works as a lecturer in creative writing, editor, and writer. Seaway: New & Selected Poems gathers together 80 poems and is the first full retrospective of a poetry career that spans over two decades.

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In Train
Poems by Peter van de Kamp

Many conversations are happening in these poems, wistful conversations which the poet is having with the reader and witty, engaging conversations with himself or with nobody in particular. Arresting, full of rhythm and gentle flow -- never a dull moment. Oh, and he knows how to rhyme as well! Gabriel Rosenstock

Peter van de Kamp was born in The Hague, The Netherlands in 1956. He taught English and Anglo-Irish Literature, Rhetoric and Stylistics at the University of Leiden and University College, Dublin, where he was a Newman Scholar. He now teaches at the Institute of Technology, Tralee. A poet, translator, critic, anthologist and scholar, he has published extensively in Ireland, England, Europe and the States.

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Freshly Rooted
Poems by EMILY WALL

This collection begins with the speaker, one week married, stepping aboard the Alaska State Ferry Malaspina as she embarks on her new life in the North Country. The poems, loosely narrative, follow her struggle to navigate the new country of marriage, and to speak the new language of self, in a land of reinvention.

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Touchstones
Poems by GORDON WALMSLEY

A touchstone is a stone used to gain insight into the qualities of a sample of gold. Gordon Walmsley develops this theme, the theme of insight, into a many-faceted adumbration of poems. He raises the question: how can we fathom the cold mechanism of an increasingly authoritarian world and be free to think and act as we wish, according to our inner touchstone? Poems and poetic sequences range from lyrical beauty to stark realism of terrifying intensity. A bold honesty permeates the book. Utilizing a variety of poetic expression, he leads us to Poesia, who appears to us in many guises.

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A Tour of Your Country
Poems by EAMONN WALL

?In his most wide-ranging work to date, Eamonn Wall probes and meditates on the histories, habitations, landscapes and ecologies of ancestral and newly-encountered places. A Tour of Your Country takes the reader from the American West to the Arctic to Wall’s native Wexford, and to some spaces in-between. Throughout, the poems record and explore the finely-tuned tension that exists between the road and home, between routes and roots, and between the physical world and how poets have been conditioned to observe and represent it. This new collection is a highly-charged literary work—one that engages in dialogues with an array of sources to create a new kind of map of the space that is common to us all.

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