Fiction

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jo Slade / City of Bridges (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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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." —...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...