New Salmon Poetry Books

Catherine Byron / The Getting of Vellum (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The `Getting of Vellum' is inspired by Byron's creative collaboration with Dublin-based artist and calligrapher Denis Brown. The cross-fertilization of his inscribed and distressed vellum pieces in his series, The Word, and Byron's poems about the...

Celeste Auge / The Essential Guide to Flight (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A strong first collection from a poet whose clear eye and cool voice combine in poems of clarity, intelligence and occasional startling beauty. -- Mary O'Malley, poetThe poems in The Essential Guide to Flight take multiple points of they journey through...

Mary O'Donnell / Unlegendary Heroes (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  In her third collection, Mary O'Donnell explores the commonplace territories that shape our lives. The poems draw in part from her instinctive response to the world around her, but equally from her unshrinking perspective on the social and...

Cecilia McGovern / Polishing the Evidence (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In polishing the evidence, Cecilia McGovern returns in many poems to her roots, as a child involved in the seasonal grind of farm work in Mayo. This closeness to earth is a reminder of the struggle for survival of previous generations, a struggle never...

José Manuel Cardona / Birnam Wood: El Bosque de Birnam (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2018.Awarded Best Translation in the Washington Independent Review of Books.Winner of the NYC Big Book Award, Independent Press Award, Best Book Award in Poetry, Readers' Favorite Award Gold Medal in...

Joyce Sutphen / The Green House (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Joyce Sutphen grew up on a farm in Stearns County, Minnesota. Her first collection of poems, Straight Out of View, won the Barnard New Women Poets Prize; Coming Back to the Body was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award, and Naming the Stars won a...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice / Poems of Faith and Doubt (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Gabriel Fitzmaurice was born in 1952, in the village of Moyvane, County Kerry, where he taught in the local elementary school. He is the author of more than forty books, including collections of poetry in English and Irish as well as several collections...

John Menaghan / Here and Gone (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Here and Gone, a book-length sequence of poems, chronicles the poet’s loss of both parents, two years apart, back at the turn of the century. Part I moves from his mother’s sudden decline to his father’s unexpected death and its...

Peadar O'Donoghue / Jewel (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Jewel is a love song for life, at times unrequited but a love song nonetheless, the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of modern life are mirrored from the degradation of unemployment to the scandalous indifference of the Catholic Church to its own...

Melanie Frances / Anatomy of a Love Affair: (My Life in the Movies) (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

These poems explore the constant interaction between everyday life and art and the imaginary space it provides all of us. In the first section which gives its title to the collection, a poetic sequence retells a real-life love affair from beginning to...

Philip Fried / Big Men Speaking to Little Men (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A collection of poems by New York-based poet, Philip Fried, who is also the founding editor of The Manhattan Review.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might...

Andrew Carpenter / Thornfield: Poems by The Thornfield Poets (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Some years ago, when Conor O'Callaghan was poet-in-residence in the School of English at UCD, the Arts Council provided support for poets from the wider community who wanted to attend the workshops he was running in UCD. The group of poets which came...

Ethna McKiernan / Sky Thick With Fireflies (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Ethna McKiernan's Sky Thick With Fireflies is laced and bound by memory. These poems hold the past to light and insist upon remembrance. Included are moving elegies for her father, for a friend's son, for the dead of 9/11, for her own child lost to...

Steven Reese / American Dervish (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Since early in their history, Americans have been seen as restless, rootless, given to wandering; that trait forms the central thematic thread in American Dervish. In poems that range from the historical to the personal, from somber to comic, from free...

John Murphy / The Book of Water (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

John Murphy's first collection finely balances the lyrical and the metaphysical in poems that are rooted in the extraordinary transformations of ordinary lives. The voice is distinctly urban and European in tone. His themes include the economic crisis,...

Mary Pinard / Portal (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Opening into a story of familial loss and its environmental echo, Portal traces the salvaging of what remains. At the center of Mary Pinard’s lyrical and formally expansive collection is a brother lost at sea in a freak tugboat accident, with the...

Maurice Harmon / afterwords (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

At 90 years old, Maurice Harmon is making poems out of memory and out of the experience of growing old, recognizing what is lost and the little that is gained.In this collection he gives us the present moment, then offers three, past thematic life in...

Julian Stannard / The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Julian Stannard taught English and American Literature at the University of Genoa for many years. After publishing Rina's War (Peterloo Poets, 2001) and The Red Zone (Peterloo Poets, 2007) the Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli completes his...

Brian Kirk / After The Fall (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Brian Kirk's poetry is a poetry of time and place. In poems of controlled passion and energy, he maps out his territory which, on the surface is domestic, but on closer examination reveals something much deeper. God, religion, family and above all love...

Louise C. Callaghan / In the Ninth House (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In The Ninth House explores the minute and magical detail of life. Many of these poems are personal, where the author resurrects ghosts and travels with them. As poet Anne Stevenson says of the poems, "they are personal in a good way." Travel, a theme...

Andrea Potos / An Ink Like Early Twilight (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The poems in this collection comprise a sort of pilgrimage, luminous with ancient light and heath mist, animated by the spirits of Keats and Constable, Caravaggio and Bernini. Whether in the glory of a Roman Piazza, or in those small moments with her...

Michael Heffernan / Back Road to Arcadia (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

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Emily Wall / Freshly Rooted (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This collection begins with the speaker, one week married, stepping aboard the Alaska State Ferry Malaspina as she embarks on her new life in the North Country. The poems, loosely narrative, follow her struggle to navigate the new country of marriage,...

Alice Pettway / The Time of Hunger / O Tempo de Chuva (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Time of Hunger | O Tempo de Chuva explores the emotional droughts and harvests that punctuate daily life. From a market in Mozambique to the cracked clay of Texas, these poems follow the human threads that cross continents and tie cultures...

Kevin Simmonds / Mad for Meat (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

San Francisco poet and musician, Kevin Simmonds was trained as classical singer but grew up in jazz, blues, and gospel-drenched New Orleans. His poems travel the distance from southern spiritual's lamentation, to gay men in a Bangkok sex club, to...

Jennifer Horne / Little Wanderer (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Poem as lyric travelogue, poet as "little wanderer" - this is the basis for Jennifer Horne's new book of poems set in Greece, Italy, Romania, England, Ireland, and the southern U.S. As connections grow, what responsibilities does that traveler have to...

Michael Heffernan / The Odor of Sanctity (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Michael Heffernan was born in 1942 in Detroit, and grew up there, in a multi-ethnic working-class neighborhood, eight blocks from the Detroit River and Canada. He studied at the University of Detroit (A.B.) and the University of Massachusetts (Ph.D.)...

Marck Beggs / Catastrophic Chords (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In his third collection, Marck L. Beggs puts forth his most thematically developed work yet. While the first part of the book comprises a series of musically oriented poems about relationships and loss, the second part concerns itself with an extended...

Jean O'Brien / The Shadow Keeper (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

While her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, The Shadow Keeper marks the appearance of O'Brien's first full-length collection. She explores the major themes of family and personal relationships, the hallmarks of her work. Her style is...

Noel Monahan / Curse of the Birds (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The flight of the soul in each of the four sections of this collection is unsettling. Ghosts abound in a bleak fragmented landscape. 'Curse of the Birds' is a quarrel from within, wrestling with loneliness and uncertainty. It is elegiac, mischievously...

Thomas Kabdebó / Ultima Ora (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Dr. Tom Kabdebo has first-hand experience of the often cruel reality of life in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II, and of the hardships (as well as the infinite possibilities) of life as a refugee. He is the author of more than forty books,...

Ben Howard / Dark Pool: Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Howard is another American poet captivated by Ireland to- one can't help thinking- the good of his craft. He writes just about the most natural, musical iambic line around these days. ...It's as seductive of the inner ear as Irish storytelling is of the...

Michael Hefferman / Another Part of the Island (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This new collection explores the worlds of solitude, loss, renewal, and longing, in an attempt to discover the byways of the heart. It tracks a course between the knowledge of the artist and the wisdom of the natural man.     These Salmon...

Jeri McCormick / When it Came Time (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Jeri McCormick was born in the Kentucky Appalachians and grew up in Cincinnati, where her family moved to escape the mountain depression. These poems chronicle the family's wrenching migration from a long-evolved culture of farms and mines to the city,...

James Ragan / The Chanter's Reed (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Praise for James Ragan's“James Ragan’s poems spare no passion in believing they sing.”Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize Winner“Ragan dominates the art of image, the art of poetic line, and the art of poetic narration with insight that...

Jo Slade / The Painter's House (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Painter's House is Jo Slade's fifth full-length poetry collection. She traces identity through language and the image, from her experience of displacement and difference to a life lived in the presence and practice of art. It is through `seeing' and...

Jo Slade / City of Bridges (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

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John Menaghan / What Vanishes (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Contains four poems of place and displacement set in such far-flung locales as Budapest, Dublin, Vancouver, and the skies above Australia along with Point Pleasant and Berkeley; poems of love and loss, engagement, alienation, and endurance; poems focused...

Patricia Monaghan / Sanctuary (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Patricia Monaghan was Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at De Paul University, Chicago. Her several Irish related works include, Irish Pagan, Celtic, Christian, Global, an international collection of essays which she compiled and edited for...

Paul Casey / Virtual Tides (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

With words chosen as skillfully as a flint is knapped Casey relates a modernity still marked by the Neolithic at its fringes, how we are all still pressed by the historic heft of stone, how ripples radiate from each of us to affect the world around us...

Sandra Ann Winters / The Place Where I Left You (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  Refreshingly direct, heroic in their address of the issues at the heart of the human condition. A natural empathy for the `individual journey' is leavened by a superb mastery of her chosen craft, what Joyce calls `a scrupulous meanness.' Her...

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)

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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...