Fiction

John Corless / Are You Ready? (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Corless lives and writes in County Mayo, Ireland. His poetry is a mix of political, satirical, and rural and has been described as `Paul Durcan meets The Sawdoctors.' He writes poetry, fiction, and drama; his work has been published in magazines and...

Edward Denniston / The Scale of Things (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Many of the poems in The Scale of Things were inspired by childhood experiences, and the book is dedicated to the author's mother who passed away in 2011.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the...

J.P. Dancing Bear / Conflicted Light (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Dancing Bear's poems have been published in Shenandoah, Poetry International, New Orleans Review, National Poetry Review, Marlboro Review, Mississippi Review, Atlanta Review and many others. He is the editor of the American Poetry Journal and the host of...

Mary O'Malley / The Knife in the Wave (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Mary O'Malley moves from the clear topography of her last collection, Where the Rocks Float, to probe the underwater world prefigured in her long poem sequence 'The Cave' from that collection. She does this by a process of inversion as 'The Seal Woman'...

Nadya Aisenberg / Measures (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

      These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or marks on the edges of the pages

Matt W. Miller / The Wounded For the Water (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Miller explores the littoral zone; between the firmament of experience and understanding, between first breath and death, where strict definitions of gender, fatherhood, and masculinity swirl in the pull of tides and the curl and crush of waves. In these...

Mark Granier / Airborne (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This is Irishman Mark Granier's first book; he had a runner-up placement in the 1995 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Competition.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they...

Lori Desrosiers / The Philosopher's Daughter (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Lori Desrosiers' father, a Professor of Philosophy and a Psychiatrist, died young (when Lori was 28) of brain cancer. His life and death are the inspiration for these poems that read like skillfully drawn postcards. The poet's family and thoughts arrive,...

A.E. Stringer / Late Breaking (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The poems of Late Breaking cross the shoals of later life on earth by contemplating animal encounters, by gathering the riches of art against loss, and by singing the sometimes questionable blessings of mortality. The right lyrics are magical...

Mark Granier / Ghostlight: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The fifth collection of poetry from Irish poet Mark Granier. Granier's awards include the New Writer Poetry Prize, the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize and a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us...

Noel Hanlon / Blue Abundance (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Noel Hanlon was born in Portland, Oregon in 1956. She lives on a 30-acre Oregon farm, where she and her husband raise sheep, chickens, and every variety of plant and vegetable possible in the Oregon climate. Her poems have been published in the US and...

Raina J. León / Boogeyman Dawn (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In Boogeyman Dawn, Raina Leon explores the space between some of our worst nightmares and the awakening of hope. Leon does not look away from even the rawest of wounds in the psyche, the flesh, and the social body, but it is through carefully wrought...

Mary O'Donnell / Massacre of the Birds (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

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...

Edward O'Dwyer / Exquisite Prisons (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Edward O’Dwyer’s poems in Exquisite Prisons pack the quotidian with a creeping terror; motorists nervously migrate to investigate the car stalled at the lights, a father is filmed throwing his child higher and higher, a husband wonders if his...

Jude Nutter / Dead Reckoning (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  Dead reckoning—used by navigators to calculate their position using a record of speed, drift, and the direction travelled relative to a last known location—is the metaphor at the heart of Jude Nutter’s fourth collection, where...

Padraig O'Morain / The Blue Guitar (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In these dynamic, musically-arcing poems Padraig O'Morain weaves subtle, captivating narratives with the skill and relish of a natural story-teller. The poems in The Blue Guitar conjure at once the pathos of the individual human situation and the echoes...

Terence Winch / Lit From Below (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This collection contains poems of ten lines, a convention the author likens to playing. The poems, which started out experimenting with referentiality and linearity, became somewhat less unconventional over the course of time.     These Salmon...

Fióna Bolger / Love in the Original Language (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Crossing borders of meaning, territory and flesh itself, Fióna Bolger’s new poems explore the limits and possibilities of language. Survival can depend on nuance, insider slang, an accurate translation, or knowing when to stay silent. Fired...

John Mackenna / Where Sadness Begins (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

John MacKenna's collection explores the general and the personal, ranging geographically and emotionally from the boglands of his native Kildare to Northamptonshire. The poems explore loss, failure, and doubt in a strikingly honest exploration of his...

Gerald Dawe / Catching the Light: View & Interviews (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  This fascinating series of literary views and interviews illuminate the coming of age of Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe during the fifties and sixties in Northern Ireland, the literary and political worlds he discovered on moving to the Republic of...

Mary O'Malley / Asylum Road (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

      These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or marks on the edges of the pages

Peter Van De Kamp / Notes (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This is Peter van de Kamp's first poetry collection. The poems are short, dramatic, imagistic, capturing fleeting emotions and feelings, like brief musical chords-nocturnes and variations.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused...

Peter Van De Kamp / In Train (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Peter van de Kamp was born in The Hague, The Netherlands in 1956. He taught English and Anglo-Irish Literature, Rhetoric and Stylistics at the University of Leiden and University College, Dublin, where he was a Newman Scholar. He now teaches at the...

Mary O'Donnell / To The Winds Our Sails: Irish Writers Translate Galician Poets (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This anthology offers five translations from ten Galician women poets, ranging in age, experience and style. It offers a unique insight into the imaginative, social, and personal preoccupations with which the Galician poets have engaged in the late 20th...

Laurence McKeown / Threads (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  Laurence McKeown almost died in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh/Maze Prison in the North of Ireland following 70 days on hunger strike in 1981. In later years, he helped facilitate poetry workshops in the prison and co-founded a prisoners' magazine. In...

Jeffrey Levine / At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Two hundred years ago, the great rabbi, Simcha Bunim, offered a teaching. Each of us has two pockets. In one, a note reads, "For my sake was the world created"; in the other, "All I am is dust and ash." Take stock of your needs, the rabbi counseled, and...

Mary Dorcey / Moving into the Space Cleared by our Mothers (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  These poems are the work of a canny and dextrous stylist. Nearly every poem records an important human fact that has hitherto gone unspoken; nearly every poem both marks a past silence and opens a new possibility. This is a truly profound book, a...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice / Will You Be My Friend?: New & Selected Poems for the Young and Young at Heart (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Brings together over 100 of Fitzmaurice's best-loved poems chosen from his collections for children, together with more than thirty new poems, including a selection of his poems in Irish. Enjoyed by both the young and the young at heart, the poems range...

Gordon Walmsley / Touchstones (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A touchstone is a stone used to gain insight into the qualities of a sample of gold. Gordon Walmsley develops this theme of insight, into a many-faceted adumbration of poems. He raises the how can we fathom the cold mechanism of an increasingly...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice / Kerry On My Mind: Of Poets, Pedagogues, and Place--Selected Prose (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  A poet and primary school teacher, Fitzmaurice explores the role of the poet and teacher within a community. Noting the importance of the poet in Irish society since ancient times.--Library Journal   These Salmon Poetry books have come into...

Allan Peterson / As Much As (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Allan Peterson is an American poet and visual artist whose writing has appeared in print and online literary journals for over twenty years. His prize-winning collections, All the Lavish in Common (2005 Juniper Prize, University of Massachusetts), and...

John Fitzgerald / Favorite Bedtime Stories (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

John M. Fitzgerald is a poet, writer, editor, and attorney for the disabled in Los Angeles. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, he attended the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review.The Mind was...

Larry Jaffe / One Child Sold: Human Trafficking & Rights (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

From the sensually romantic to humor and social commentary, Larry Jaffe impacts audiences with a rich emotional range, masterfully crafted. His poetry appears in numerous anthologies, magazines, and on the Internet where he has pioneered poetry web sites...

John Menaghan / She Alone (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A book-length poetic sequence that traces the life of an imaginary woman from birth to death and beyond, employing a wide range of forms from free verse to heroic couplets.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but...

Philip Fried / Early/Late: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  Early/Late: New and Selected Poems draws from Philip Fried's previous four collections of poetry. These highly praised books explored such themes as the tribulations of a vulnerable deity and the intersection of personal myth and historical moment...

Leah Fritz / Whatever Sends the Music Into Time: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  In Whatever Sends the Music into Time, Leah Fritz questions everything - her own life, human nature, politics, even the universe - with humor, fearlessness, and love. This `new and selected' includes poetry from four previous collections, which...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice / Twenty One Sonnets (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Fitzmaurice was born, in 1952, in the village of Moyvane, County Kerry where he still lives. He has been teaching in the local primary school, where he is now principal teacher, since 1975. He is author of more than forty books, including collections of...

Ian Watson / Granny's Interpreter (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Granny's Interpreter includes new and used,' published and unpublished poems that wheel around home. Belonging and memory on a sliding scale between tenderness and satire and between bereavement and celebration are prevalent themes. Many of these poems...

Drew Blanchard / Winter Dogs (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Drew Blanchard is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he has twice been awarded The Academy of American Poets Prize. His writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Notre Dame Review, Guernica / a magazine of...

Ben Howard / Leaf, Sunlight, Asphalt (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Ichigo ichie ("one time, one meeting"), a motto associated with the Japanese tea ceremony, enjoins the host and guests in the tea hut to treat each encounter as unprecedented and unrepeatable. Infused with that conviction, the poems of Ben Howard's sixth...

Judith Barrington / Long Love: New & Selected Poems 1985-2017 (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

These poems, whether in traditional or looser forms, reveal 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...

Catherine Byron / The Getting of Vellum (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The `Getting of Vellum' is inspired by Byron's creative collaboration with Dublin-based artist and calligrapher Denis Brown. The cross-fertilization of his inscribed and distressed vellum pieces in his series, The Word, and Byron's poems about the...

Celeste Auge / The Essential Guide to Flight (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A strong first collection from a poet whose clear eye and cool voice combine in poems of clarity, intelligence and occasional startling beauty. -- Mary O'Malley, poetThe poems in The Essential Guide to Flight take multiple points of they journey through...

Mary O'Donnell / Unlegendary Heroes (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  In her third collection, Mary O'Donnell explores the commonplace territories that shape our lives. The poems draw in part from her instinctive response to the world around her, but equally from her unshrinking perspective on the social and...

Cecilia McGovern / Polishing the Evidence (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In polishing the evidence, Cecilia McGovern returns in many poems to her roots, as a child involved in the seasonal grind of farm work in Mayo. This closeness to earth is a reminder of the struggle for survival of previous generations, a struggle never...

José Manuel Cardona / Birnam Wood: El Bosque de Birnam (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2018.Awarded Best Translation in the Washington Independent Review of Books.Winner of the NYC Big Book Award, Independent Press Award, Best Book Award in Poetry, Readers' Favorite Award Gold Medal in...

Joyce Sutphen / The Green House (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Joyce Sutphen grew up on a farm in Stearns County, Minnesota. Her first collection of poems, Straight Out of View, won the Barnard New Women Poets Prize; Coming Back to the Body was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award, and Naming the Stars won a...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice / Poems of Faith and Doubt (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Gabriel Fitzmaurice was born in 1952, in the village of Moyvane, County Kerry, where he taught in the local elementary school. He is the author of more than forty books, including collections of poetry in English and Irish as well as several collections...

John Menaghan / Here and Gone (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Here and Gone, a book-length sequence of poems, chronicles the poet’s loss of both parents, two years apart, back at the turn of the century. Part I moves from his mother’s sudden decline to his father’s unexpected death and its...

Peadar O'Donoghue / Jewel (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Jewel is a love song for life, at times unrequited but a love song nonetheless, the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of modern life are mirrored from the degradation of unemployment to the scandalous indifference of the Catholic Church to its own...

Melanie Frances / Anatomy of a Love Affair: (My Life in the Movies) (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

These poems 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...

Philip Fried / Big Men Speaking to Little Men (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A collection of poems by New York-based poet, Philip Fried, who is also the founding editor of The Manhattan Review.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might...