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Salmon Poetry Online BookshopWe sell all our books directly through our Online Bookshop, including work by poets such as Ray Bradbury, Adrienne Rich, Carol Ann Duffy, Mary Dorcey, Joan McBreen, Kevin Higgins, Todd Swift, Eamonn Wall and many, many more.
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Salmon News

Four Salmon poets have poems featured in The Forward book of poetry 2009

J.P. Dancing Bear for "Natural Enemies" from Conflicted Light (Salmon, 2008)

Kevin Higgins for "My Militant Tendency" from Time Gentlemen, Please (Salmon, 2008)
Lorna Shaughnessy for "Grasping the Nettle" from Torching the Brown River (Salmon, 2008)
James Liddy for "An Excursion with Ian Gibson to the Lorca Museum" (published in The SHop literary journal).

The Forward book of poetry 2009 is, as Forward Prize Judge Frieda Hughes writes in her foreword, "a fantastic showcase for the best of some of the most recent publications and the most talented of our new and established poets".

 
Events Guide
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Photo Gallery


Salmon Poetry Reading - as part of All-Ireland National Poetry Day, 2nd October 2008, at The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, County Clare. Click HERE to view photos of this and other recent Salmon events

 
 
Forthcoming Titles

* Polishing the Evidence, the debut collection of poetry by Cecilia McGovern (November 2008)

* The Kiss: New & Selected Poems & Translations by Ulick O'Connor (December 2008)

 
Advice for writers
Advice for writers on submitting their work to publishers. more>>
 
"Salmon Poetry is one of the most innovative, perceptive and important publishing houses in the U.K. or Ireland.  It has fostered and supported the work of new writers and has established them in the public consciousness."
Eavan Boland
"Unquestionably the most important publisher of poetry in Ireland" -- Fintan O'Toole, writer/journalist.

Salmon Poetry, taking its name from the Salmon of Knowledge in Celtic mythology, was established in 1981 as an alternative voice in Irish literature. The Salmon, a journal of poetry and prose was a flagship for writers in the west of Ireland, and Salmon's first books, Gonella by Eva Bourke and Goddess on the Mervue Bus by Rita Ann Higgins broke new ground for women poets. Since then over 200 volumes of poetry have been produced, and Salmon has become one of the most important publishers in the Irish literary world. By specialising in the promotion of new poets, particulary women poets, Salmon has enriched Irish literary publishing. Read More

 

"Salmon Poetry has contributed enormously to making poetry a popular and regular shopping commodity." Books Ireland

I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems
by RAY BRADBURY

First published by Salmon in 2002, now updated in 2008 with additional poems and a new cover design, I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems is Ray Bradbury's first poetry collection to be published outside the U.S. First published by Salmon in 2002, this 2008 edition is updated with additional poems. This volume is a gift to generations who have read and loved his remarkable work. more >>

     
Ground Forces
Poems by PAUL ALLEN
  Object Found
Poems by GUZSTAV BAGER
     
Conflicted Light
Poems by J.P. DANCING BEAR
  Catastrophic Chords
by MARCK L. BEGGS
     
Catching the Light: Views & Interviews
by GERALD DAWE
  Tethered to the Earth
Poems by Tyler Farrell
     
In Daily Accord
Poems by FRANK GOLDEN
  The Mischievous Boy and other poems
by MAURICE HARMON
     
To Keep the Light Burning: Reflections in times of loss
by ANNE LE MARQUAND HARTIGAN
  The Odor of Sanctity
Poems by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
     
Finding The Gossamer
Poems by PATRICK HICKS
  Time Gentlemen, Please
Poems by KEVIN HIGGINS
     
Signs, Translations
Poems by JOHN HILDEBIDLE
  Poems to My Wife and Other Women
Poems by THOMAS KRAMPF
     
Lost in the Gaeltacht
Poems by CAROLINE LYNCH
  Polishing The Evidence
Poems by CECILIA McGOVERN
     
Big Pink Umbrella
Poems by SUSAN MILLAR DuMARS
  Lost Republics
Poems by ALAN JUDE MOORE
     
Green
Poems by PADDY MORAN
  A Father's Day
Poems by PETE MULLINEAUX
     
The Kiss - New & Selected Poems & Translations
by ULICK O'CONNOR
  Torching the Brown River
Poems by LORNA SHAUGHNESSY
     
Seaway: New & Selected Poems
by TODD SWIFT
  In Train
Poems by PETER VAN DE KAMP
     
A Tour of Your Country
Poems by EAMONN WALL
   
     
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"Salmon's unique profile grows from the diversity of the work it publishes.. most notably, Salmon is distinguished by the number of women on its list." Patricia B. Haberstroh, Irish Literary Supplement
 
"A Parent to Poetry"
Essay published in The Irish Times, 23rd February 2008
A Parent to PoetryFor more than 26 years, Jessie Lendennie has been nurturing and publishing poets via Salmon Poetry, from her home in Co Clare. One of them, Eva Bourke , salutes her contribution. Read the essay HERE
 
"As a major publisher of poetry, Salmon has nurtured the talents of both new and emerging poets and its publications have been consistently exciting and varied." Seamus Hosey, RTE Radio
Three Recent Anthologies from Salmon Poetry

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

Salmon: A Journey in PoetrySalmon: 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

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Thornfield: Poems by the Thornfield Poets
Introduced and Compiled by Andrew Carpenter

ThornfieldThe 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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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 compre- hensive 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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