Fiction

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...

Caroline Lynch / Lost in the Gaeltacht (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A poetry collection from actor and poet Carolyn Lynch.Lost in the GaeltachtMy radio is only picking upbutton accordions and banjos.Even the fields that wore walls like lace cuffsare gone. I should have checked the map miles back.Three cars coming at me...

Larry O. Dean / Activities of Daily Living (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Larry O. Dean's latest poetry collection examines routine occupations that go on every day-reading and writing email, watching TV, going out to eat, working a job, parking the car, grocery shopping, and online purchasing. It includes both traditional and...

Nuala Ní Chonchúir / The Juno Charm (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In the tapestry that is The Juno Charm, award-winning writer Nuala Ní Chonchúir explores the worlds of two marriages - one waning, one waxing - and the pain of pregnancy loss and fertility struggles. This is an intimate book where the...

Philip Fried / Squaring the Circle (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Phillip Fried's seventh edition. A humorous and yet also mysterious evocation of esoteric physics and theology. The title poem presents a mystic/scientific quest for an impossible geometry as both a vaudevillian historical catastrophe and a way of...

Lex Runciman / Salt Moons: Poems 1981 - 2016 (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The sixth collection of poems from Oregon native Lex Runciman. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches at Linfield College, where he twice received the Edith Green Award for teaching excellence.ÿHe has also received the Kenneth O. Hanson Award and...

Jo Pitkin / Commonplace Invasions (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Jo Pitkin’s poems are strong, exact, intensely evocative, and resonate with a lovely inner music. Hers is one of the surest poetic voices to be heard now, and Commonplace Invasions will consolidate her reputation among those who know her work and...

Patrick Hicks / Library of the Mind: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

For readers new to the work of Patrick Hicks, Library of the Mind is a phenomenal primer on his singular voice and vision. They will discover a writer who is tender-hearted, clear-headed, deeply human. For long-time fans like myself, this collection...

Patrick Hicks / This London (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In this new collection, Patrick Hicks explores connections between history and place, colonialism and language, visiting and belonging, and he points out the hidden streets and personalities of a city that changed the world. Patrick Hicks's work has...

Patrick Hicks / Finding the Gossamer (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In several versions of ancient mythology, the spider is the creator of the universe, a weaver of reality, a goddess that has built an intricate web to support the story of life. Our lives and the lives of the dead are threaded together, they form an...

Jeffrey Thomson / The Belfast Notebooks: Poems & Prose (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Traces a poet's journey deep into a country where "the wine tastes of jasmine and history" as it evokes layers of violence, memory, and community. Ranging across Northern Ireland through Italy, Spain, Morocco, and back home to Maine, these poems from...

David Gardiner / The Chivalry of Crime (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Chivalry of Crime continues with themes developed in David Gardiner’s previous collection, Downstate. It reflects upon history and its affect on home spaces through a series of lyrics and sequences. At its center is the accidental discovery of...

Paulann Petersen / One Small Sun (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Takes readers from a fur shop in Oregon to a shrine in India. Its pages contain a meditation on post-mortem photographs, an ode to the female earwig; an elegy for a grandmother's panache. Tapping deeply into memory, relying on poetry's ability to bring...

Mark Granier / The Sky Road (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Mark Granier's first collection, Airborne, was published in 2001. He was awarded an Arts Council Bursary in 2002 and the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize in 2004. The Sky Road continues to explore themes that emerged in the first...

Adam Hughes / Allow the Stars to Catch Me When I Rise (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This, the third collection of poetry from Adam Hughes, takes the reader on a mystical journey. Found in these pages is life in all of its variety and seduction. This collection is a sea-net, a constellation, an archipelago of dreams, hopes,...

Stephen Roger Powers / The Follower's Tale (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

All roads lead to Dollywood, and The Follower’s Tale, a bluegrass-inspired medley of lyric narrative poems, cruises the back highways of the American South on the way. These poems are about driving and exploring, music and heartache, and one...

Patrick Hicks / Adoptable (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

To adopt a child from another country necessarily means taking them away from their culture, their language, and their ancestral background. As the child grows up, what affect does this have? In this new collection, Patrick Hicks explores the thorny...

Nicola Griffin / Unbelonging (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Nicki Griffin was the 2010 Over the Edge New Poet of the Year. Her debut collection, Unbelonging, has two main themes, both of which examine a sense of displacement. The first is personal, a consideration of dislocation of self in place, both her own and...

Mark Granier / Haunt (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Mark Granier’s Haunt unfolds in tender, observant gestures. There is much sadness here regarding personal memory, death, and a sense of generations passing.This makes for an elegiac collection but Granier’s elegies are not made of pieties...

Jean O'Brien / Stars Burn Regardles (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In Stars Burn Regardless , Jean O’Brien writes as a seer, with a vision that travels beneath and through the worlds she inhabits. With stunning language and original voice, she travels the edges of the earth/sea/sky—the bones/bodies/ash...

Dairena Ní Chinnéide / Deleted (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Motherhood, anger, sex, meditation and gratitude swirl in the sea of these poems, and if the sea washes the shores of Corca Dhuibhne, the territory and the known terrain of her poetry in Irish, Dairena Ní Chinnéide is well able for the sea...

Nicki Griffin / Crossing Places (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A sense of place pervades this collection; Voices carry along rivers, a boat turns on its anchor; gardens flush with roses. It is full of points of no return, of transformations: buildings that seemed solid and permanent tumble and fall down, the natural...

Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently comic...

Paul Genega / All I Can Recall (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The poems here attempt to piece together the seminal, sometimes traumatic, events which forge identity and inform our lives. At turns elegiac and sardonic, All I Can Recall looks to the past to make sense of the present, employing the sharp light of...

David Gardiner / Downstate (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Downstate, the first Irish-published poetry collection by David Gardiner, editor of the international journal, An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts. A writer, publisher, and professor, he divides his time between Omaha where he...

Andrea Cohen / Kentucky Derby (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Lyric compression and a wonderful command of the plain style make Andrea Cohen one of a handful of poets who can make her voice the conscious echo of her mind. And it's a mind well furnished with whimsy, heartbreak, and moral questioning, a mind...

Frank Golden / In Daily Accord (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In Daily Accord presents a selection of short poems written on a daily basis over a twenty-month period. Loosely based on Haiku and Senryu forms they are instanter reductions of Golden's quotidian reality. A variety of voices, and echoes from the greater...

Owen Gallagher / A Good Enough Love (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

An open-eyed, quirky, quietly dexterous collection from Southall, from Ireland, from the bedroom and doctor’s waiting room. Owen Gallagher’s poems should be more widely known.' Moniza AlviIn his third collection of poetry, Owen Gallagher...

Frank Golden / gotta get a message to you (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  A new collection of poems from Irish writer, Frank Golden. Golden is a poet, novelist, and visual artist. He lives in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. Color photos.   These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due...

Gordon Walmsley / Fire and Ice: Nine Poets from Scandinavia and the North (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This volume brings together poets from Scandinavia whose voices have not been widely heard in English translation. Denmark: Inger Christensen, Denmark's most celebrated contemporary poet, Lene Henningsen, and Willum Peder Trellund. Sweden: Katarina...

Micheál Fanning / The Separation of Grey Clouds (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Micheal Fanning's poetry is included in anthologies such as Cum and Kerry, Eigse an Aeir, and Ireland's Love Poems. His poetry has also appeared in many literary journals and newspapers, including The Honest Ulsterman, Acumen, Envoi, The Sunday...

Kelly Moffett / A Thousand Wings (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Kelly Moffett believes the spirit lies in things–in landscape, air, water. Listen to this, from “Devotion”: “You have become both a wall and a parachute./ Just as lichen can be lichen but also holy food.” In her collection,...

Alan Jude Moore / Zinger (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

From rows of umbrellas on an Italian beach, to lines of commuters in the rain in Ireland, from the ghost of Apollinaire in the Moscow underground, to a snowbound truck-stop in Pennsylvania, from migrant boats crashed against the borders of Europe and...

Rosemary Canavan / Trucker's Moll (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Rosemary Canavan was born in Scotland, and brought up in County Antrim, Ireland. Her first collection The Island was shortlisted for the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize at the University of Melbourne, Australia. In 2001 she was Writer-in-Residence for Co...

Alan Jude Moore / Strasbourg (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  With this new work, Alan Jude Moore marks a return to Dublin and a sense of his Irishness after the Russian poems of his second collection, Lost Republics. The title, Strasbourg, reflects how that small Alsatian city is now the capital of the...

Valerie Duff / To The New World (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This is poetry full of absolute physical celebration - galley stoves, flour, slabs of meat, pollens, a tarnished boat - a gift, really. By turns these poems are violent and sweet, representing many journeys. They are surreal, joyous, startling, and...

Catherine Barry / A Beautiful Pain (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  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 them notice the reality of the world around them. The poems contained...

Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow / Horn Section All Day Every Day (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Old-school songs play through and beneath these soulful poems, the radio hits of rhythm `n' blues pioneers like Solomon Burke and Junior Wells. Yet what lifts our journey to a new level is the presence of a winsome comic hero named Super Dan, an...

Amy Dryansky / Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In her second collection of poems, Dryansky's intrepid speaker sets off once again, this time into the deceptively open field of adult life. Along the way she pushes at the boundaries of identity and connection, questioning our perceptions of selfhood...

Georgina Eddison / Standing in the Pizzicato Rain (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A slim volume from the winner of the 2008 Listowel Writer's Week Poetry CompetitionThese poems like the pizzicato rain of their title are refreshing, musical and slightly strange. Georgina Eddison is joyfully serious about her themes: family,...

Paul Genega / That Fall: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This is the fourth collection from this award-winning poet and his second title from the Irish publisher, Salmon. The "fall" of the title is really many falls. It is the season, of course, but also the runway approach of an airplane, the setting of the...

Drew Blanchard / Unquiet Remains (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Renders a malleable world of snowfalls and ghosts of snowfalls and loved ones and seasons which speak from murky dimensions. We are both grounded and unhinged as the poet presents a kaleidoscopic universe rooted in laws and principles foreign to our...

Trevor Conway / Evidence of Freewheeling (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

Ilsa Thielan / Night Horses (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Ilsa Thielan's poetry, like her famous photographs of the Burren and the West of Ireland, have a lyric intensity and beauty which brings to life the unique character of this fascinating landscape.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us...

Todd Swift / Seaway: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Swift is one of the leading Canadian poets and poetry activists of his generation. His critical study of Anglo-Quebec poetry, Language Acts, co-edited with Jason Camlot, was a finalist for the 2007 Gabrielle Roy Prize. He has had four previous...

Gordon Walmsley / Echoes of a River: Poems of New Orleans and Beyond (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A journey through layers is the progression Gordon Walmsley describes in this collection. One of the layers is the home of his birth and of his childhood, New Orleans, itself a place of many layers and obscurities. But there are others. There is the...

John W Sexton / Futures Pass (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In these poems, born from a personal experiment into channeling a prosodic alter-ego, 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 transubstantiated piano to the...

Seán Ó Ríordáin / Milking the Sun / Ag Crú na Gréine: The Irish of Seán Ó Ríordáin (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Sean O Riordain (1916-1977) is one of the finest Irish poets of the twentieth century. He was among the foremost poets of Nuafhiliocht na Gaeilge, the new Irish language poetry that emerged in the mid twentieth century. This collection gathers Gabriel...

Peter Joseph Gloviczki / American Paprika (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

These poems reach across the human experience in search of the concrete and the sublime. Taken together, these poems seek to explore an experience that is uniquely American and yet resonates with individuals around the world. The title of the collection,...

Peter Gloviczki / Kicking Gravity (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This book finds the speaker traveling around the world and returning home with a newfound appreciation for life, love, the possibilities of the body, and the landscapes that connect us. From Budapest to London and New Orleans to the American Midwest,...

Marck L. Beggs / Libido Cafe (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Welcome to the Libido Cafe, where monkeys are welcome, the piano has been drinking, and the coffee is always perfect. In his second collection, Marck L. Beggs explores a wide range of poetic forms and subjects. From the formal structure of the sonnet to...

Jacqueline Kolosov / Memory of Blue (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Tender, but never over-sentimental, the poems in Memory of Blue explore who we are, who we might be, through the eyes of a new mother—her pregnancy, her first years of motherhood—what gifts she wishes to give her daughter, what she honors and...