New Salmon Poetry Books

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...

Patrick Chapman / Open Season on the Moon (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Chapman's most experimental and engaging collection yet. In these pages we meet some of his inspirations - Cronenberg, Lynch, Bowie - on a journey through memory, erotica and death. In poems of arresting beauty and subtle wit, from the sublime to the...

Breda Sullivan / Sculpture in Black Ice (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Her poems resonate with an unnerving elegance and honesty and her voice is a trustworthy and intimate one. She writes about family and loss with ceremonial care. Her language is lucid, her images stark and striking. Indeed, her poems explore the life of...

Mark Ward / Nightlight (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Mark Ward’s long-awaited first collection Nightlight is a journey through a city and a reaching towards whatever light can be found; be that in a sex club, with a board game, a new friendship or a changing relationship. Throughout this journey,...

Rita Ann Higgins / Hurting God: Part Essay Part Rhyme (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

God, fairies, jiving factory girls, a crocodile-wielding father, long-lost lives, and equally long-lost multinationals all form part of the brilliant world of Rita Ann Higgins's collection of essays and poems. For over two decades Rita Ann Higgins has...

Ted McNulty / On the Block (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

On The Block is narrative, lyrical poetry rising in an arc of tracers from life in New York and Dublin, as well as travels in the South Seas. McNulty's insights into the details of life bring us closer to a real understanding of the immigrant mind. The...

Marck L. Beggs / Blind Verse (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In his fourth collection of poetry, Marck L. Beggs explores folklore, from the famous to the obscure, from the personal to the universal, in an attempt to make meaning of the contemporary world. Geographically, it moves through locations as diverse as...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice / Smitten Soul: Illuminating the Dark (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Poetry, like prayer, should be strong enough to stand up to the dark, hence this collection is subtitled "Illuminating the Dark". The poems in this book have been collected from a lifetime of they progress from spiritual poverty through the dark night of...

Jon Tribble / And There is Many a Good Thing (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This collection explores that idea in its title by opening the reader to a world as varied as the talents of Monty Python and Sarah Vaughan, Peter Gabriel and Hans Christian Anderson. The book takes the reader from the Great Rift Valley to Queens, Mexico...

Adam Wyeth / The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In this critical study, Adam Wyeth unravels the many rich and varied ancient Celtic legends which run through contemporary Irish poetry. Each chapter begins with a poem by one of Ireland's leading poets, followed by sharp, shrewd analysis of its making...

Sarah Clancy / The Truth and Other Stories (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In this powerful book Clancy excavates the personal and physiological wreckage caused by the grim and unrelenting recession in her native Ireland. In a poetic game of truth and dare the poems here flit between testifying to and then blatantly denying the...

John Morgan / Archives of the Air (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

As caribou encounter the oil pipeline on Alaska’s North Slope and cranes navigate their way through the towering mountains of the Alaska Range, Archives of the Air brings the reader into contact with the strange and fascinating world of the far...

Ivy Page / Elemental: A Dissection of Parts (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In Ivy Page's second book, time is like skin. Bodies are mapped out. Moods melt like ice. Page's poems are peopled with ghosts of fragility and chronic illness. Elemental is a striking collection of transformation, of connections and failures, of...

C.J. Sage / The San Simeon Zebras (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  C. J. Sage's poems appear in publications such as The Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Threepenny Review, etc. She edits The National Poetry Review and Press. She resides in Rio Del Mar, California...

Arno Kramer / Morningrustle (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Arno Kramer is an established artist based in The Netherlands. He often gives master classes and exhibits his work in Ireland; his work is much inspired by Irish poetry.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but...

Paul Grattan / Daytime Astronomy (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Eight years in the making, the poems in Daytime Astronomy were, like the rest of us, born in the heart of a dying star, with gibbous Venus in full frame; traversing the middle latitudes - Ards, Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, Moscow, Phnom Penh, Piter,...

Alice Pettway / Dawn Chorus (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Like the burgeoning sounds of morning from which Dawn Chorus takes its name, these poems emerge from the darkness of urban isolation into brilliant wilderness. More than half of the world’s humans now live in cities, waking to the rhythm of...

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 unused and unopened but due to the storage in...

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 flash fictions, Wall engages robustly and ironically with...

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 his books and are not presented in chronological order...

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."--Poetry     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us...

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 writing and publishing memorable poetry. His engagement...

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 visual images that the poems in this new collection take...

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 clock-time, soaring to a Blakean cleansing of the `doors of...

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 alert to the comic and everyday even when broaching hard...

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 reflect that state of being; they come from the perception...

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 around us. From the Pushcart-Prize-nominated title...

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 artful and often moving, unnerving, or humorous turns of...

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 work echoing with literary and historical allusions...

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 relationships. If ecology is the study of the...

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 for the voiceless, informing and transforming the...