Fiction

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 Creative Writing and Literature from Kirkland College and...

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. As with her previous collections, her work is honest...

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 ago, and more recent poems deriving from stays in...

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 in a relationship and work through them, and to weather...

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 someone wandering aimlessly, but nomadic as in...

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 books have come into us unused and unopened but...

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 face of utter bereavement and forfeiture manifested in...

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 phrase; serious illness is seen as a `rogue state,' a...

Noel Hanlon / Trusting Distance (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Like letters from a cherished friend, No‰l Hanlon's poems are intimate and generous, unconcealing, deeply observant of loss, of family, of love. Her connection to the natural world runs deep.-Molly Gloss. Born in 1956, No‰l Hanlon farms on...

Peter J Gloviczki / The Weight of Dandelions (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  This collection explores each moment to discover its essence. Believing there is beauty (and humor) in the everyday world, Gloviczki declares in one "queen-size bed / the dog lets me / sleep there too" recognizing the relationship between animals...

Michael Heffernan / The Night-Watchman's Daughter (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Lifelong night person Michael Heffernan often writes poems before he can glimpse the rosy-fingered dawn. The title of his twelfth book redounds from poetry itself as a muse who recognizes the poet in the form of a father figure. None of this has much to...

Judith Mok / Gods of Babel (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This book is the result of years of wandering through different countries and languages. Hence the Gods of Babel. Whatever words were used, they must have been worshipped by some. Music, Judith Mok's shared passion in life with literature, encouraged her...

Su Smallen Love / The Memoir of Mona Lisa: And Other Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Memoir of Mona Lisa and Other Poems is a wonderfully ambitious and innovative book. An extraordinary work of the imagination, `The Memoir of Mona Lisa' is a narrative of a woman who had been both tormented and adored, who manages to escape fate's...

Paul Genega / Sculling on the Lethe (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Genega taught for many years at Bloomfield College, New Jersey where he founded the creative writing program. His legacy continues at Bloomfield through the Genega Endowed Scholarships in Creative Writing. "Genega fully charges all this material with a...

Richard W. Halperin / Catch Me While You Have the Light (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Mr. Halperin's fourth collection with Salmon emphasizes what one poem calls `the so what of the different' in the startling, luminous language that has characterized his work from the beginning. Jesus, Miss Marple, Henry James, make brief appearances...

Louise C. Callaghan / Moonlight: A Full Moon (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Here, then, is this marvelous poet of elegies and celebrations, of seasons and servants, of boarding school and trundling foreign journeys. Louise C. Callaghan has a keen eye for detail and, like Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, a...

Richard Peabody / Guinness on the Quay (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Peabody is among the finest poets to so astutely capture the American spirit. His use of imagery, metaphor and humor comes together to create a unique and original style, which takes into account everything from The Clash, to postmodern poetry; Jimi...

James O'Sullivan / Courting Katie (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A collection from Irish author James O'Sullivan. He has twice been shortlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize, as well as the Fish Short Story Prize 2014/15.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage...

Mary Melvin Geoghegan / As Moon and Mother Collide (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The thing that drew me to Mary Melvin Geoghegan's collection was its accessibility. Too often poems push the reader away but these draw the reader in. Their simplicity; their directness; their wonderful imagery; their rawness are gifts from writer to...

Knute Skinner / An Upside Down World (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In the early 1990s, in his volume The Bears And Other Poems , Knute Skinner embarked on an extraordinary poetic project – the elaboration of short poetic fictions. In the intervening years he has become a master of this charged and compelling form...

Raina J. León / Sombra: (dis)locate (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In this book, the poet converses with spirits of the living and the dead, spirits tied to location and dissembled by dislocation. The book offers a scrying cartography, exploring liminality with poems that exist at threshold. They are situated very much...

Anne Casey / out of emptied cups (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

out of emptied cups explores what it means to be human—a consciousness contained within a shell that dictates so much of what our experience of life will be.Including internationally award-winning and shortlisted pieces, these strongly felt...

Patrick Chapman / Slow Clocks of Decay (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Symphonic in structure and epic in scale, Slow Clocks of Decay explores universal themes through the lens of one of Ireland's most imaginative poets. Dealing with crises all-too familiar today - the loss of friends to suicide; the insidious nature of...

Ethna McKiernan / Swimming with Shadows (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

McKiernan's fourth collection returns to her earlier themes of loss --of her youngest son, of her father, and of the pervasive losses of the homeless population with whom she works. This new collection also addresses political wounds of a bygone...

Carolyn Tipton / The Poet of Poet Laval (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This collection begins by celebrating openings; moments that give an abundant sense of possibility. The poems sometime return here but also move through other themes - by way not of sections, but of transitional poems - to death and the Spanish Civil...

Daniel Thomas Moran / In the Kingdom of Autumn (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Moran’s is an egalitarian poetry which will attract readers who do not usually read poetry and this is as great an achievement as any high modernist grail."Matt Haw Poetry Salzburg Review, Austria"Fierce argument is not his motive for writing...

John Murphy / The Language Hospital (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

John Murphy lives and works in Dublin. He was shortlisted twice for the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune New Irish Writing prize; he was also shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and specially commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Award. His debut collection, The Book...

Bernadette Cremin / Papercuts: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Bernadette Cremin has won various awards and has published four previous Perfect Mess (Biscuit publishing), Speechless and Miming Silence (both from Waterloo press) and Loose Ends (Pighog press). Her one woman show `Altered Egos' was awarded Arts Council...

Patrick Moran / Reckonings (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Patrick Moran’s fourth collection, Reckonings , traces the poet’s journey from a rural upbringing, marked by religious fervor, to a world of fraught intensities and troubled legacies. Having charted his progress through a diocesan boarding...

Clare McCotter / Revenant (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Revenant is Clare McCotter’s second book of poems. Written within arm’s reach of a cemetery wall, the collection inhabits a hinterland where bones, real and metaphorical, slip their graves. In these physical and metaphysical landscapes there...

Jean Kavanagh / How the Weather Was (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

How the Weather Was, Jean Kavanagh’s second collection, describes how someone’s choices can lead to an interruption of the ordinary, moving in parallel with the seemingly steadfast lives of others.Far from her origins — whether...

Stephanie McKenzie / Saviours in this Little Space for Now: Poems for Emily Carr and Vincent van Gogh (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This collection brings together two great artists - Emily Carr (1871-1945) and Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Carr's appreciation for the First Nations of her day and Van Gogh's compassion for the impoverished seem to find a home together. So, too, do...

Mary Madec / The Egret Lands with News from Other Parts (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In this third collection, Mary Madec returns to the real world of what it means to be herself, a woman of these times, exploring again the territories of the heart. She presents a partly imagined trajectory, extending beyond the present and deep into the...

Ethna McKiernan / Light Rolling Slowly Backward: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Light Rolling Slowly Backward is Ethna McKiernan’s fifth and most ambitious collection of poetry. McKiernan, who has a gift for metaphor, gives us 120 poems in her latest volume, a third of which are new. Her work, which some critics have compared...

Alvy Carragher / the men I keep under my bed (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A young woman wakes feeling raw and tender after a one-night stand. She leaves a strange man sleeping in her bed and goes running. Marked by the anxiety of living in a city that does not feel like home, she must face the memories and men kept under her...

J P Dancing Bear / Fish Singing Foxes (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Fish Singing Foxes is a delightful collection of two series of poems. One series borrows a line of poetry from a contemporary poet using it as an "on-ramp," a point of departure, and creates an entirely different poem from it. The second series serves as...

John Griffin / Erosions (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  Erosions is John A. Griffin’s first full-length book of poems. Written shortly after he emigrated to the United States, the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence, fantasy, landscapes, nature, death,...

Dede Cummings / The Meeting Place (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In  The Meeting Place , the speaker looks out from our coasts, east, and the unbounded sky, the sheltering coves, the sand and rocks, the spartina grass growing and blowing in the sand. The title, as the opening poem makes clear, refers to the...

John Morgan / The Hungers of the World: New & Collected Later Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

These poems are strong and full of carefully controlled feeling. They are tender and precise evocations of the moral and sensory life of man." - Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize winner"Morgan demonstrates that he understands the complexity and the enormous...

Graham Fulton / Equal Nights (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The fifth collection of poetry from Scottish poet Graham Fulton. He has been published widely in Europe and the USA.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might...

Diann Blakely / Lost Addresses: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Diann Blakely (1957-2014) was an American poet, essayist, editor, and critic. She taught at Belmont University, Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, and Watkins Arts Institute, and served as the first poet-in-residence at the Harpeth Hall School in...

Stephen Bett / The Gross & Fine Geography: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Canadian writer Stephen Bett is internationally known as one of the leading poets of his generation. The Gross & Fine Geography draws from thirteen major collections and adds a generous sampling of new work, spanning over four decades. His early work...

Paul Balfe / Four Seasons (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Paul Balfe’s poems are distinguished by a forensically intelligent eye for the telling detail which cuts to the heart of seemingly inconsequential encounters or childhood memories. All are rendered fresh in poems that need no recourse to verbal...

Phil Lynch / In a Changing Light (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Phil Lynch's first poetry collection takes us on a journey of encounter, observation, and questioning to places real and imagined. His themes range from the personal to the political and from the local to the global. There are poems inspired by love,...

Sandra Ann Winters / Do Not Touch (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Sandra Ann Winters’ ‘Our Irish Garden’ is a delicious procession of rhyming couplets using an extended garden metaphor…”– Leslie McGrath, Judge of the 2019 NY Yeats Society Poetry Prize praises a poem from this...

Eamon McGuinness / The Wrong Heroes (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Wrong Heroes is the powerful debut collection from Dublin writer Eamon McGuinness. Exploring major themes such as illness, personal loss, grief, love and fatherhood, the poems move through various physical and emotional landscapes, from suburban...

Alice Pettway / Station Lights (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Most experiences lie in the long miles between life’s stations, but we look toward the next town’s lights for reassurance that we will eventually arrive. When those lamps dim, or are passed by in the night, we become disoriented, caught in...

Frank Golden / The Night Game (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

New York. Late winter. The city is shrouded in fog.Mary lives alone in her childhood home, a rambling brownstone on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.After a series of menacing phone calls, and fearing that she is being stalked, Mary contacts Sheila, one...

Majella Cullinane / Whisper of a Crow's Wing (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Published simultaneously in Ireland by Salmon Poetry, Majella Cullinane’s remarkable second collection, Whisper of a Crow’s Wing, is the work of a poet with a distinct and powerful voice. These poems weigh and examine oppositions – the...

Aideen Henry / Slow Bruise (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Slow Bruise is a body of work with multiple layers and resonances. Emotion is intensely felt yet tamed, so that the poems are cool and palatable and yet red hot with feeling. Those who came before us forms the skeleton of the first section, Culvert,...

Andrea Potos / A Stone to Carry Home (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This collection exults in images of luminous earthly beauty - a blue scarf lake, Greek bread that tastes of heaven and salt, cobbled streets shining like jet in the rain - that also hint at the inevitability of loss. In these poems, Potos prepares to...

John Morgan / The Moving Out: Collected Early Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

John Morgan studied with Robert Lowell at Harvard and won the Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry. He received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop where he was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. In 1976, he moved with his family to Fairbanks,...