Bøger udgivet af Salmon Poetry

Rory Brennan grew up in Dublin and took a degree in literature from Trinity College. He has worked in education, broadcasting and arts administration and has lived for extended periods in Morocco and Greece. Travel in these and many other places is r

Originally from Belfast, Fred Johnston currently lives in Galway. In addition to his poetry collections, he has published one novel and works regularly as a reviewer for publications such as the Southern Humanities Review, The Irish Times, and Harpers & Queen, and he is the poetry reviewer for Books Ireland. Some of the poems in True North originally appeared in Orbis, New Letters, The Southern Review, and The Seneca Review.

In an array of approaches as varied as its subject matter, these poems explore loss, music, mystery, tensions, terrors, ecstasies, and endings. By turns lyrical, abstract, anguished, celebratory, humorous, and reflective, they move between a nuanced appreciation of how things are and an intense longing for how they might be.