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