Irish Poetry Titles
Daragh Breen Birds in November
This is Daragh Breen’s third collection from Shearsman Books, preceded by Nostoc and What the Wolf Heard. He lives in County Cork, Ireland, and his poetry has recently appeared in journals such as Blackbox Manifold, Tears in the Fence, Long Poem Magazine, Molly Bloom and The Fortnightly Review.

Daragh Breen Nostoc

Daragh Breen What the Wolf Heard

Susan Connolly Forest Music

Susan Connolly The Sun-Artist
Published 2013. Chapbook, 34pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £7.50 / $10.95
ISBN 9781848613133 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .]
The Sun-Artist is a collection of "pattern poems" by a poet who has been experimenting with visual texts—often with a uniquely Irish "subject matter"—for several years. Her last Shearsman collection, Forest Music, featured a number of such works, but this chapbook is entirely visual.

Susan Connolly Bridge of the Ford — Visual Poetry from Drogheda

Susan Connolly The Orchard Keeper
Published 2017. Paperback, 30pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £7.50 / $10.95
ISBN 9781848615601 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .]
Francis Ledwidge was a frequent visitor to the McGoona household at Donaghmore, near Navan, Co. Meath. Matty McGoona, an amateur naturalist and musician, became his close friend. A chance encounter with an elderly man beside the orchard at Donaghmore was the catalyst which led Susan Connolly to explore the life of Francis Ledwidge in greater depth, and to write her sequence of poems, The Orchard Keeper . Francis Ledwidge was born in Slane, Co. Meath, in 1887. He wrote poetry from an early age. He enlisted in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1914, and survived the battlefields of Gallipoli, Serbia and Arras before being killed on July 31st, 1917, the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres.
The six poems gathered under the title Woman in a Black Hat , warmly recall the lives of close friends and family.

Anamaría Crowe Serrano onWords and upWords

Anamaría Crowe Serrano Femispheres

Trevor Joycewith the first dream of fire they hunt the cold. A Body of Work, 1966-2000

Trevor Joyce Courts of Air and Earth

Trevor Joyce Selected Poems 1967–2014

Trevor Joyce What's in Store
Shearsman Library Vol. 20. Second edition. First UK edition.
Published 2025. Paperback, 328pp, 9 x 6ins, £19.95 / $32
ISBN 9781848619692
What's in Store, first published in Canada in 2008, was Trevor Joyce's first full-length book following the publication of his collected poems,
with the first dream of the fire they hunt the cold (Shearsman Books, 2001; 2nd edition 2003). For this volume, the author shaped eight years' worth of work — individual poems, extended sequences, translations from the Irish, Chinese, and other languages — into a continuous book-length structure. These poems find Joyce reaching out towards a jarringly wide range of styles and voices, from the tart lyricism of his re-workings of European folksongs to the ferociously dense collage/inscription of "STILLSMAN." Brought together as a book, the poems take on further meanings:
What's in Store is at once a Borgesian guide to the history, customs and scientific discourse of an unknown country, and an Oulipian textual machine, whose workings by turns terrify and exalt.

Kenneth Keating (ed.)
A Line of Tiny Zeros in the Fabric - Essays on the Poetry of Maurice Scully

David Lloyd Arc & Sill — Selected Poems 1979–2009

Billy Mills Five Easy Pieces
Chapbook, £7.50.
Five Easy Pieces provides a very accessible opening into Mills' work, with all of his main themes and devices present: the found text, the expressive use of space on the page, the landscape as source and record, the personal lyric… (Randolph Healy,
Orbis ).
This book has since been reprinted in the author's Collected (see below).

Billy Mills Lares / Manes — Collected Poems
Published 2009. Paperback, 360pp, 9x6ins, £17.95 / $25
ISBN 9781848610460 [Download a sample PDF from this book
here .]
Billy Mills was born in Dublin in 1954. After spending some time in Spain and the UK, he now lives and works in the mid-west of Ireland. This collection brings together his seven previously published volumes, which have been revised and corrected, plus a selection of newer, previously uncollected work.

Billy Mills a book of sounds
Published November 2024. Paperback, 96pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $18
ISBN 9781848619289
In the Postface to his
114 Songs
of 1922, Charles Ives wrote: “Some of the songs in this book, particularly among the latter ones, cannot be sung, and if they could, perhaps might prefer, if they had a say, to remain as they are; that is, ‘in the leaf’ and that they will remain in this peaceful state is more than presumable.” Oddly enough, some of the songs in this book have been sung, but most remain silent on the page awaiting a willing reader who’s ready to take the title at face value. These are songs in which “nothing happens/& it is good” if you want it to be. —Billy Mills

Niamh O'Mahony Essays on the Poetry of Trevor Joyce

Maurice Scully Airs

Maurice Scully Things That Happen

Maurice Scully Several Dances

Maurice Scully Humming

Maurice Scully Tig

Michael Smith Maldon — A Version
Published 2019. Chapbook, 32pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £7.50 / $10.95
ISBN 9781848616530 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .]
Maldon is a version of the Anglo-Saxon epic fragment usually known as The Battle of Maldon , which tells the tale of a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the invading Vikings which took place ca. 991 AD on the shores of the River Blackwater, almost certainly opposite Northey Island. This was originally published in 2004 as part of the now-deleted volume, Maldon & Other Translations .
"Smith’s version [of Maldon ] preserves nicely a ghost of the alliterative pattern that rumbles through the original, without trying to reproduce it fully in a clog-dance of consonants. It is recognisably the same poem as the original: it has its linguistic density and compelling narrative pull, but it is free from the mildewed quaintness that sometimes hangs around translation from Old English.”
—Dr. Alex Davis, U.C. Cork

Michael Smith Prayers for the Dead and other poems

Michael Smith & Luis Ingelmo Poems from Other Tongues

Michael Smith Collected Poems

Michael Smith Maldon & Other Translations

Michael Smith The Purpose of the Gift — Selected Poems

Geoffrey Squires (ed./trans.) My News for You: Irish Poetry 600-1200

Catherine Walsh Optic Verve

Catherine Walsh City West

Augustus Young Diversifications
