Books
Athena’s Book
Athena’s Book follows a return to the northwest coast of Ireland and the weather that gathers around it. A house. A woman returned. A mind trying to arrange what was lost.
The book moves from Ireland to the Pacific Northwest and back into the private country of memory. Love, myth, travel and disappearance are held in a spare field of images.
Selected poems
- 01THE WINDOW
- 02WHAT DO YOU SEE
- 03UP THE COAST
- 04THE PHEASANT
- 05SHOVEL & AXE
- 06WHOLE
The Black Valley Poems
The Black Valley Poems gathers work shaped by mountains, roads, rivers, abandoned houses and the western edge. The poems are records of weather, exile and private reckoning.
The dead remain close. Animals appear. Voices come through from somewhere older than speech. The landscape is not a setting. It is the pressure under everything.
Selected poems
Gaeltacht Ghazals
Gaeltacht Ghazals is a book of bastard ghazals from Donegal. Fishing piers, rain, goats, old factories, saints, drink, local figures and bad weather pass through the poems.
The form is loose. Each couplet stands apart yet belongs to the same coast. Love and loss arrive indirectly. So do exile, superstition and the previous life.
Selected poems
Heresies
Heresies is a book of spiritual disobedience. Elegies, invocations, road songs and fragments move through false authority, death, poverty, private revelation and sacred disorder.
The poems are not arguments. They are refusals. Refusals of dead language, false idols, inherited obedience and the small tyrannies of the age.
Selected poems
Love Is An Ancient Disease
Love Is An Ancient Disease gathers early selected poems of exile, motel rooms, skid rows, saints, hustlers, ruined cities and love as a force that wounds and keeps moving.
The book is restless and cinematic. It carries road life, cheap rooms, vanished women, outlaw mysticism and the old trouble of wanting to be saved.
Selected poems
Advance Copies
Advance copies are available for €30 EUR each, including global postage.
Order — €30 EUR