Fiction

Steven Reese / American Dervish (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Since early in their history, Americans have been seen as restless, rootless, given to wandering; that trait forms the central thematic thread in American Dervish. In poems that range from the historical to the personal, from somber to comic, from free...

John Murphy / The Book of Water (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

John Murphy's first collection finely balances the lyrical and the metaphysical in poems that are rooted in the extraordinary transformations of ordinary lives. The voice is distinctly urban and European in tone. His themes include the economic crisis,...

Mary Pinard / Portal (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Opening into a story of familial loss and its environmental echo, Portal traces the salvaging of what remains. At the center of Mary Pinard’s lyrical and formally expansive collection is a brother lost at sea in a freak tugboat accident, with the...

Maurice Harmon / afterwords (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

At 90 years old, Maurice Harmon is making poems out of memory and out of the experience of growing old, recognizing what is lost and the little that is gained.In this collection he gives us the present moment, then offers three, past thematic life in...

Julian Stannard / The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Julian Stannard taught English and American Literature at the University of Genoa for many years. After publishing Rina's War (Peterloo Poets, 2001) and The Red Zone (Peterloo Poets, 2007) the Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli completes his...

Brian Kirk / After The Fall (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Brian Kirk's poetry is a poetry of time and place. In poems of controlled passion and energy, he maps out his territory which, on the surface is domestic, but on closer examination reveals something much deeper. God, religion, family and above all love...

Louise C. Callaghan / In the Ninth House (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In The Ninth House explores the minute and magical detail of life. Many of these poems are personal, where the author resurrects ghosts and travels with them. As poet Anne Stevenson says of the poems, "they are personal in a good way." Travel, a theme...

Rachael Hegarty / May Day 1974 (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

What an extraordinary book this is. What a challenge, to give voices to the dead. And how triumphantly Rachael Hegarty succeeds, how utterly convincing these poems are in their delicacy, their humor, and the truth of their language; how well her words...

Andrea Potos / An Ink Like Early Twilight (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The poems in this collection comprise a sort of pilgrimage, luminous with ancient light and heath mist, animated by the spirits of Keats and Constable, Caravaggio and Bernini. Whether in the glory of a Roman Piazza, or in those small moments with her...

Michael Heffernan / Back Road to Arcadia (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

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Emily Wall / Freshly Rooted (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This collection begins with the speaker, one week married, stepping aboard the Alaska State Ferry Malaspina as she embarks on her new life in the North Country. The poems, loosely narrative, follow her struggle to navigate the new country of marriage,...

Alice Pettway / The Time of Hunger / O Tempo de Chuva (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Time of Hunger | O Tempo de Chuva explores the emotional droughts and harvests that punctuate daily life. From a market in Mozambique to the cracked clay of Texas, these poems follow the human threads that cross continents and tie cultures...

Kevin Simmonds / Mad for Meat (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

San Francisco poet and musician, Kevin Simmonds was trained as classical singer but grew up in jazz, blues, and gospel-drenched New Orleans. His poems travel the distance from southern spiritual's lamentation, to gay men in a Bangkok sex club, to...

Jennifer Horne / Little Wanderer (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Poem as lyric travelogue, poet as "little wanderer" - this is the basis for Jennifer Horne's new book of poems set in Greece, Italy, Romania, England, Ireland, and the southern U.S. As connections grow, what responsibilities does that traveler have to...

Michael Heffernan / The Odor of Sanctity (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Michael Heffernan was born in 1942 in Detroit, and grew up there, in a multi-ethnic working-class neighborhood, eight blocks from the Detroit River and Canada. He studied at the University of Detroit (A.B.) and the University of Massachusetts (Ph.D.)...

Marck Beggs / Catastrophic Chords (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In his third collection, Marck L. Beggs puts forth his most thematically developed work yet. While the first part of the book comprises a series of musically oriented poems about relationships and loss, the second part concerns itself with an extended...

Jean O'Brien / The Shadow Keeper (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

While her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, The Shadow Keeper marks the appearance of O'Brien's first full-length collection. She explores the major themes of family and personal relationships, the hallmarks of her work. Her style is...

Noel Monahan / Curse of the Birds (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The flight of the soul in each of the four sections of this collection is unsettling. Ghosts abound in a bleak fragmented landscape. 'Curse of the Birds' is a quarrel from within, wrestling with loneliness and uncertainty. It is elegiac, mischievously...

Thomas Kabdebó / Ultima Ora (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Dr. Tom Kabdebo has first-hand experience of the often cruel reality of life in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II, and of the hardships (as well as the infinite possibilities) of life as a refugee. He is the author of more than forty books,...

Ben Howard / Dark Pool: Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Howard is another American poet captivated by Ireland to- one can't help thinking- the good of his craft. He writes just about the most natural, musical iambic line around these days. ...It's as seductive of the inner ear as Irish storytelling is of the...

Michael Hefferman / Another Part of the Island (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This new collection explores the worlds of solitude, loss, renewal, and longing, in an attempt to discover the byways of the heart. It tracks a course between the knowledge of the artist and the wisdom of the natural man.     These Salmon...

Jeri McCormick / When it Came Time (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Jeri McCormick was born in the Kentucky Appalachians and grew up in Cincinnati, where her family moved to escape the mountain depression. These poems chronicle the family's wrenching migration from a long-evolved culture of farms and mines to the city,...

James Ragan / The Chanter's Reed (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Praise for James Ragan's“James Ragan’s poems spare no passion in believing they sing.”Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize Winner“Ragan dominates the art of image, the art of poetic line, and the art of poetic narration with insight that...

Jo Slade / The Painter's House (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Painter's House is Jo Slade's fifth full-length poetry collection. She traces identity through language and the image, from her experience of displacement and difference to a life lived in the presence and practice of art. It is through `seeing' and...

Jo Slade / City of Bridges (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

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John Menaghan / What Vanishes (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Contains four poems of place and displacement set in such far-flung locales as Budapest, Dublin, Vancouver, and the skies above Australia along with Point Pleasant and Berkeley; poems of love and loss, engagement, alienation, and endurance; poems focused...

Patricia Monaghan / Sanctuary (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Patricia Monaghan was Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at De Paul University, Chicago. Her several Irish related works include, Irish Pagan, Celtic, Christian, Global, an international collection of essays which she compiled and edited for...

Paul Casey / Virtual Tides (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

With words chosen as skillfully as a flint is knapped Casey relates a modernity still marked by the Neolithic at its fringes, how we are all still pressed by the historic heft of stone, how ripples radiate from each of us to affect the world around us...

Sandra Ann Winters / The Place Where I Left You (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  Refreshingly direct, heroic in their address of the issues at the heart of the human condition. A natural empathy for the `individual journey' is leavened by a superb mastery of her chosen craft, what Joyce calls `a scrupulous meanness.' Her...

Michael Heffernan / The Breaking of the Day (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  As much as he can make them, Heffernan's poems are inventions of a reality in words caught in passing between strangers who stop and listen without needing to know why. Many are poems of places, from almost anywhere in Ireland to northern Michigan...

Liz Quirke / How We Arrive in Winter (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

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Eithne Hand / Fox Trousers (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

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...

Richard W Halperin / Quiet in a Quiet House (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Quiet in a Quiet House is a collection of poems about people and places no longer here. The landscape, whether Ireland, Italy, France, or Japan, is characterized by quiet - interrupted at points by keening, by gales of laughter, by rants...

George Moore / Children's Drawings of the Universe (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Children’s Drawings of the Universe explores the nature of the senses in early experience, the conceptual way children build their world, and their universe. Yet, George Moore’s poetry does not shy from the philosophical questions of Being,...

Lex Runciman / Starting from Anywhere (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Starting from Anywhere is based upon the generous belief that poetry can begin with anything: a painting, a line from another poem, or even how perfectly ordinary things can "balk account." The urgency underlying these quiet poems reveals how the eye and...

Liz Quirke / The Road, Slowly (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A ground-breaking debut collection of love poems. With an assured voice, Quirke's poems weave through the experience of becoming a wife and mother in a collection of considerable lyrical beauty. Her poetry ploughs new thematic ground with confidence and...

Thomas Lynch / Sin-Eater (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Set on the West Clare peninsula, where the author keeps an ancestral home, these poems explore the nature of religious experience, faith and doubt, communion and atonement.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but...

Bertha Rogers / Wild, Again (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

These poems look at humans and other living things who share the those who choose to show, even flaunt themselves, and the ones who bide - almost seen - in shadow or disorder. Like the 19th century naturalist John Burroughs, Rogers believes one must...

Eamonn Wall / Junction City: New & Selected Poems 1990-2015 (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

It is Eamonn Wall’s exceptional achievement as a poet to have extended the sources and vision of his work on the open road of America while remaining vividly in step with whatever he encounters anywhere, and to have done so without losing sight of...

Elaine Feeney / The Radio Was Gospel (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Radio was Gospel examines the poet's childhood curiosity. This very powerful collection juxtaposes the way things should be against the way things are, and visits Venice, San Francisco, Spain, Salthill, the Aran Islands, and the local church, but...

Adam Wyeth / The Art of Dying (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Adam Wyeth lives in Dublin. His critically acclaimed collection, Silent Music, was Highly Commended by the Forward Poetry Prize. His poetry has won and been commended in many international competitions, and his work appears in several anthologies,...

Anne Fitzgerald / Vacant Possession (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Raw, poignant, wrenching, and deeply courageous, this beautiful collection of poetry took my breath away. Each poem is a gift, wrapped in luminous, lyrical verse. Standing firmly in her own truth, Fitzgerald takes us on a tour de force of the human...

Dave Lordan / Invitation to a Sacrifice (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Invitation to a Sacrifice is the second collection of poetry from a prizewinning author who has already made a considerable reputation through publications and readings. His debut collection, The Boy in the Ring (Salmon, 2007) was shortlisted for the...

Ivy Page / Any Other Branch (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Any Other Branch is a culmination of the work Ivy Page has done, and in many ways the life she has lived. The four sections in this book, "Men," "Room," "Girl," and "High Tide" are developmental, or life stages and they give the reader a glimpse into...

Anne Fitzgerald / Beyond the Sea (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Anne Fitzgerald is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and Queen's University, Belfast. Her collections are Swimming Lessons and The Map of Everything. She is a recipient of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Bursary at The Princess Grace Irish...

Jean O'Brien / Lovely Legs (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In this lively and very readable collection; O'Brien has returned to many of her earlier themes, including dislocation - as she seeks to capture the precise moment of an event, its fulcrum. There are poems of heart and hearth and human relationships,...

Louise C. Callaghan / Dreampaths of a Runaway (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A new collection from Irish poet, Louise C. Callaghan. Some of her previous collections are In the Ninth House, The Puzzle-Heart, and Remember The Birds. She compiled and edited Forgotten Light: An Anthology of Memory Poems. Her poetry is widely...

John Morgan / Spear-Fishing on the Chatanika: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Spear-Fishing on the New and Selected Poems is the culmination of over forty years of writing by the distinguished Alaskan poet, John Morgan. It opens with a gathering of recent work, ranging from poems of family and travel to explorations of landscape,...

Anne Tannam / Twenty-Six Letters of a New Alphabet (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

These compelling, beautiful poems reveal a poet who has long found an original footing in the society in which she lives, finding in it a source of inspiration. Anne Tannam is energetically aware of the global sphere of injustice and beauty, of unfair...

Adam Wyeth / about:blank (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Keep looking at the outside world until the outside world is no longer outside."Wyeth is a poet of ideas exquisitely wrought and swarming, demanding a reader awake to complexity on a subtle scale." — AILBHE DARCY"Adam Wyeth’s work is fresh...

Sue Hubbard / Swimming to Albania (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Reading Sue Hubbard’s Swimming to Albania , the reader enters a world of acute absence and remoteness haunted by the ever-present unresponsive dead, into which the details of everyday reality explode like hand grenades. Whether recalling lost...

Helene Cardona / Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Winner of the 2017 Best Book Award, the 2017 International Book Award in Poetry, the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book and the Readers' Favorite Book Award in Poetry. Finalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award, the 2016 Julie Suk Award...