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afterwords- Maurice Harmon
At 90 years old, Maurice Harmon is making poems out of memory and out of the experience of growing old, recognising what is lost and the little that is gained. In this collection
he gives us the present moment, then offers three, pas...
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Days of Clear Light - A Festschrift in Honour of Jessie Lendennie & in Celebration of Salmon Poetry at 40- Jessie Lendennie Edited by Alan Hayes & Nessa O'Mahony With a foreword by President of Ireland Michael D...
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Silver Spoon- Jessamine O'Connor
With Illustrations by Helen Chantrell
After five chapbooks and ten years writing poetry, this first full collection has a wide wingspan and a sharp eye. Migrating from Dublin to Lough Gara, on the Sligo Rosc...
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Fox Trousers- Eithne Hand
In these playful, considered poems, the emotional impacts of small moments are captured in a relaxed and natural way. Verbal gymnastics and powerful metaphors are laid down in spare, lively words. This confident first collection from a writer who has worked primarily in the world of sou...
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Massacre of the Birds- Mary O'Donnell
The range of poems in Massacre of the Birds moves from an encounter with water creatures in ‘Hanging House in a Canal’ to the appearance of a satyr in O’Donnell’s back garden in ‘Muse.’ Mythic nature abounds, but wake-up calls to social denia...
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Pathogens Love A Patsy - Pandemic and Other Poems- Rita Ann Higgins
In Pathogens Love A Patsy, Rita Ann Higgins bears witness to a moment in Irish life unlike any seen in a century: the Covid-19 crisis. Many of these pandemic poems, broadcast on Brendan O’Connor’s RTÉ Radio 1 radio show, were composed weekly in d...
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Smitten Soul- Gabriel Fitzmaurice
“A wonderfully coherent and satisfying collection – and a very moving one. I was thinking of Seamus Heaney and Emily Dickinson talking about telling the truth slant: this book tells it four-square. It is wonderful”.
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Katie - Poems for the Young and Young at Heart- Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Completed before his A Farewell to Poetry, Katie: Poems for the Young and Young at Heart gathers the best of Gabriel Fitzmaurice’s poems dealing with the first five years of his granddaughter’s, Katie Crowl...
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A Beautiful Pain- Catherine Barry
Don’t judge me for dying.
Don’t judge me for still being alive.
“There is an urgency to Catherine Barry's work, a determination to take the reader's arm and make the...
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Do Not Touch- Sandra Ann Winters
“Sandra Ann Winters’ ‘Our Irish Garden’ is a delicious procession of rhyming couplets using an extended garden metaphor…”
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