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Long Love: New & Selected Poems 1985 - 2017- Judith Barrington
These poems, whether in traditional or looser forms, reveal Judith Barrington’s unerring ear for the music of language. Her subjects—being a lesbian, horses, the ocean, memory, love, grief, aging, disability, and facing one’s own mortality—are explored with fierce attention, originality, and ...
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Along the Flaggy Shore: Poems from West Clare- Carlos Reyes
“In his new book, Along the Flaggy Shore, Carlos Reyes meditates on the presence of the past and the passing of the present in poems which roam the west of Ireland in a kind of modern-day bardic circuit. Every poem is ...
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Futures Pass- John W. Sexton
In the poems of Futures Pass, born from a personal experiment into channelling a prosodic alter-ego, John W. Sexton ranges from the formal to the projective – out of this world, and out of his mind. From famous mice to an entropic rose, from a transubst...
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The Narrow Way of Souls- Eileen Sheehan
In Eileen Sheehan’s third collection, The Narrow Way of Souls, there is an ongoing investigation of the liminal spaces between speech and silence; between body and spirit; between question and answer. Often peopled by metaphorical avatars, these are po...
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When Moon and Mother Collide- Mary Melvin Geoghegan
‘The poems of Mary Melvin Geoghegan are struck with a new vitality derived from the poet’s rootedness in a highly contemporary world. The maternal psyche is explored delicately, throughout this collection and the nature of of human inconsistency. There is Dublin and a memory of the Phibsboro ...
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The Life That I Have- Knute Skinner
“Nothing.
Just standing here.
That’s all I’m doing.” <...
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Milking the Sun / Ag Crú na Gréine- The Irish of Seán Ó Ríordáin. Translated by Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Internally illustrated with eight beautiful oil paintings by Brenda Fitzmaurice
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Afternoon Drinking in The Jolly Butchers- Rachel Coventry Afternoon Drinking in The Jolly Butchers is the debut collection from Galway-based poet Rachel Coventry. Beginning in East London, the collection makes its way back to Ireland and also moves from troubled youth to adulth...
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The Road, Slowly- Liz Quirke
“This is a tremendous first collection. Liz Quirke has an assured and distinctive voice, balancing intelligence and feeling in a series of moving and deep reflections on motherhood. Lyrical and universal, these poems mirror the difficult beauty of human relat...
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Songs from the Blue River- Paul Kingsnorth
The poems in Songs from the Blue River seek to give voice to the land and its inhabitants, both human and non-human. Mountains, rivers, lakes, glaciers, starlings, earthworms, oak trees: all have their say, as do the humans who live with and through the...
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