Fiction

Gabriel Rosenstock / Uttering Her Name (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Rosenstock is the author and translator of over 100 books, including 13 volumes of poetry in Irish. Uttering Her Name is his debut volume in English.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us...

Eamonn Wall / Sailing Lake Mareotis (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Sailing Lake Mareotis, Eamonn Wall's sixth collection to be published by Salmon Poetry, is both thematically and formally his most diverse and engaging work to date. In lyric poems, satires, and...

Daniel Tobin / The Stone in the Air: A Suite of Forty Poems from the German of Paul Celan (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Holocaust survivor Paul Celan is widely regarded as the greatest German poet of the latter half of the twentieth century. These forty versions of Celan's poems are brought together from several of...

Ben Howard / Midcentury (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Supple rhythm...entertaining...simple psychic truths.--Kirkus. "Howard's poetry, dispite his long and distinguished record of publication, seems to be a well-kept secret in this country...

Ulick O'Connor / The Kiss: New and Selected Poems and Translations (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Among Ulick O'Connor's prodigious literary output as biographer, playwright, literary historian and critic, he is also a poet. Since his first book of poems Life Styles appeared in 1973, he has been...

Eamonn Wall / Refuge at DeSoto Bend (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Eamonn Wall has a bright eye for detail--a preacher on a plaza in New Mexico, the arrangement of objects in a window in Co. Sligo, pine needles covered in snow in South Dakota Bend-it is from these...

Lori Desrosiers / Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Lori Desrosiers' Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak enfolds in an origami of memory the poet's life and the lives of her family and others. As with any fine poetry, the poems mostly transcend...

Jean O'Brien / Merman (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

These are engagingly written poems using the acoustic play of consonants and vowels so necessary for bringing life and music to the poetry. Accessible and often strongly narrative they are always...

Alan Jude Moore / Lost Republics (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Most of the poems in Lost Republics were written in Moscow. One of the world's great cities, Moscow's immensity extends a strange sort of citizenship to all those who live there, and these poems...

Patrick Chapman / The Darwin Vampires (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Darwin Vampires, Patrick Chapman's fifth collection, draws on life, as much as on imagination, to explore themes of memory, death, fractured love, and the often-harrowing strangeness of the world...

Knute Skinner / Concerned Attentions (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Concerned Attentions is Knute Skinner's first book of poetry since his collected edition, Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007, appeared from Salmon. As his readers may expect, the new work exhibits his...

Maurice Harmon / The Doll With Two Backs (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Within memories of colonial invasion and tribal breakdown, The Doll with Two Backs tells the story of failed friendship between a Native American girl and a visiting Irish academic. In a many-layered...

Laura-Gray Street / Pigment and Fume (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The poems of Pigment and Fume explore, scavenge, celebrate, and interrogate—by hook and crook, riff and raff, physics and ekphrastics, instinct and ecstasy—the natural world and the nature of our...

Mary Dorcey / To Air the Soul, Throw All the Windows Wide (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Passionate and profoundly poignant, Mary Dorcey's poetry collection seeks images of redemption. Original and catalytic, for 25 years she has written from the borderlines of human experience, speaking...

Susan Millar DuMars / Naked: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  Contains poems written and published over twenty-five years, including a selection of poems from each of Susan Millar DuMars' four previous collections,?Big Pink Umbrella, Dreams for Breakfast, The...

Noel Monahan / The Funeral Game (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Funeral Game travels the pathway between two worlds, holding and reconciling Earth and Heaven - Life and Death as one reality. A soul landscape of changing myths, fugitive idols, where fantasy is...

Gerard Donovan / Kings and Bicycles (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Kings and Bicycles, Zen Masters in the Supermarket, Ballad of the Bridge Troll, A Week of Delirium and Shells - Donovan's titles illustrate his rich mixture of the lyrical and the mundane. Wide in...

Larry O. Dean / Brief Nudity (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Brief Nudity's poems are concerned with the juxtaposition between elegy and irreverence. It includes persona poems recounted from the perspective of victims of the 1989 Bay Area Loma Prieta...

Lorna Shaughnessy / Anchored (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Full and various, Anchored establishes Lorna Shaughnessy’s range and power. From meditation on the landscape of the West of Ireland to the exploration of memories, personal or communal, treasured or...

Shira Dentz / how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

how do I net thee is a diagram of a voice drawn through lyric, visual, and prose poems threading schisms within a family, within a society brutalized by racial tensions, and within the space crossed...

Philip Fried / Interrogating Water and Other Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Interrogating Water uses such varied forms and formats as the ballad, sonnet, villanelle, psalm, press release, checklist, obituary, and poll to summon the unmoored voices that proliferate in our...

Maurice Harmon / The Mischievous Boy and Other Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In this far-reaching collection Maurice Harmon extends the examination of modern Irish life that he began twenty years ago. the mischievous boy exposes the conditions of life in Ireland through...

Karl Parkinson / Butterflies of a Bad Summer (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Karl Parkinson is a writer from inner-city Dublin; Butterflies of a Bad Summer is his second collection of poetry. Karl is one of Ireland's most acclaimed live literature performers and has read by...

Geraldine O'Kane / Unsafe (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Geraldine O'Kane's anticipated first collection is an impactful introduction to a voice that is compassionate, vivid and courageous. The poems weave between spaces, timelines and identities bearing...

Susan Millar DuMars / Over the Edge: The First Ten Years: An Anthology of Fiction & Poetry (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Over the past 10 years, Susan Millar DuMars and Kevin Higgins have established the Over the Edge readings not only as the main regular literary event in Galway but also as one of the leading venues...

Edward O'Dwyer / Bad News, Good News, Bad News (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This is the second collection of poetry from Irish poet Edward O'Dwyer. His poems have been published in magazines and anthologies throughout the world.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into...

Patrick Chapman / Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Intimate and daring, the poems in Patrick Chapman's remarkable third collection explore with often searing clarity the naked spaces of love, sex and death. Startling, original, sometimes quietly...

James Ragan / The World Shouldering I (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

These poems advocate for courage in the face of a future whose business it is to be dangerous. There is a gallery of marvels in these pages - poems of nature, love, jazz, family, and while some...

Maurice Harmon / Hoops of Holiness (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Maurice Harmon's sixth collection moves from the sunlit terraces of faith to the dismemberment of a rural estate. The decline of Catholic power and the losses that went with it form an underlying...

C.J. Sage / Open House (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Oregon poet CJ Sage's sixth collection, and her second with Salmon.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have...

Alan Jude Moore / Black State Cars (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The voice of this well sustained and consistently strong collection is unusually urban. Cosmopolitan in the real sense of the word; its strength is in its landscape and structure. Starting with a...

Todd Hearon / No Other Gods (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Todd Hearon’s second collection, No Other Gods, draws richly on his gifts as poet and dramatist. From the sonnets and nonce-forms interspersed throughout, to its central thousand-line verse...

Eamonn Wall / My Aunts at Twilight Poker (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The rich narrative poems in My Aunts at Twilight Poker provide nuanced and many-sided explorations of Irish and Diasporic life—with particular focus on Eamonn Wall’s hometown of Enniscorthy, Co...

Joseph P. Wood / Fold of the Map (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

From the swampy forests of the Deep South to the inner cities of the Mid-Atlantic, Fold of the Map uses the United States’ vast geography as a springboard into meditations on self and other. The...

Gordon Walmsley / The Braille of the Sea (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Those familiar with the spiritual poetry of Walmsley know that he writes like an angel. This does not mean sweetness and light. Rather, this means a voice, or voices, which use words as DNA alive;...

Maurice Harmon / When Love is Not Enough: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

To mark his 80th birthday Maurice Harmon presents a sample of poems written in the last two years together with selections from several recent collections. In these pages the range and variety of...

Cameron Conaway / Until You Make the Shore (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Four fictionalized female juveniles represent each of the four levels from a juvenile detention center's Restorative Justice Model. With this as structure, Until You Make the Shore inhabits the...

Celeste Auge / Skip Diving (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Celeste Auge's second collection of poetry is both a celebration and an interrogation of what connects us. Skip Diving inhabits the small joys and disasters that shape a world. A father returns after...

John McKeown / Night Walk (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Rather than "emotion recollected in tranquillity," many of these short poems encapsulate the aggravations of love untempered by any fireside philosophy. Unrealizable lusts of the eye, unrequited...

Louise Callaghan / Remember the Birds (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

Mary Madec / Jessica Casey and Other Works (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Jessica Casey is like no other girl and maybe like all the girls. Living in the real world is quite a task and she is constantly coming up against her own foibles as she tries to find where she fits...

Neil Shepard / How It Is: Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Although Neil Shepard has long been associated with the stony foundations of Vermont, both by his luminous invocations of the natural world and his Frost-worthy, densely woven lyricism, he has...

Dani Gill / After Love (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

David McLoghlin / Santiago Sketches (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Santiago Sketches is a book of short, imagistic poems entirely set in Santiago de Compostela, where the small and the local are revealed to be universal, mirroring the process whereby this small city...

Jo Pitkin / Rendering (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This new collection of poems by award-winning poet Jo Pitkin examines illusion, delusion, hypocrisy, and betrayal through the cloudy lens of a transformative love affair. Jo Pitkin earned a BA in...

Jean O'Brien / Fish on a Bicycle: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A revisiting of O'Brien's four previous collections that moves up to the present day. Her new poems mark a maturing of her work, dealing with ill health, parenthood, nature, and everything in between...

Patrick Kehoe / Places to Sleep (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  The poems gathered here re-assemble late 1970s Barcelona as a parallel city of the imagination. There are visits to other Spanish cities, a memory of a brief walk through Murcia some forty years...

Celeste Auge / I Imagine Myself (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

I Imagine Myself is for anyone who has ever imagined they were someone (or something) else. A powerful collection that asserts the freedom to have a visible midlife as a woman, to have difficulties...

Jean Kavanagh / Other Places (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Jean Kavanagh’s first collection moves between diverse but not incidental locations: Dublin, Clare, Oslo and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Kavanagh is not a nomad in the sense of...

Estha Weiner / at the last minute (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Estha Weiner's fourth collection. Her poems have appeared in numerous outlets, including The New Republic and Barrow Street. She was 2005 winner of a Paterson Poetry Prize.     These Salmon Poetry...

Lori Desrosiers / Keeping Planes in the Air (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Poet Henrik Nordbrant speaks of 'the glow which approaching death/ leaves on photographs of people who died young/ in the memory of those left behind.' Such is the aura of singular brilliance in the...

Fred Johnston / Rogue States (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The phrase `rogue states' has been conjured with deadly purpose by major world powers to describe weaker countries who have fallen out of favor with the West. Johnston's new collection adopts the...