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Journey to the Sleeping Whale- Jane Robinson
Jane Robinson is a poet of serious intent. More importantly she is a poet with enough range and depth of imagination and technique to give expression to that intent. Her poems are firmly grounded in the physical world. This is one reason why her sometimes dar...
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A Stone To Carry Home- Andrea Potos
In this collection Andrea Potos exults in images of luminous earthly beauty – a blue scarf lake, Greek bread that tastes of heaven and salt, cobbled streets shining like jet in the rain – that also hint at the inevitability of loss. In these poems, Poto...
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Places to Sleep- Patrick Kehoe
Patrick Kehoe taught English classes in Barcelona for two years between 1978 and 1980. The poems gathered here re-assemble that vibrant metropolis as a parallel city of the imagination. There are visits to other Spanish cities, a memory of a brief walk ...
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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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