New Salmon Poetry Books

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)

      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

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...

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...