We are delighted to be publishing the following new titles for Spring 2026.
That’s It – Eamon Grennan
Eamon Grennan, a poet who knew from the beginning the values and rewards of paying attention finds himself at the opening of That’s It, his final book of poems, ‘in the dark’, ‘in numbered days and nights’, from which he takes abiding comfort in the solace of language. This moving, sorrow-filled book still finds ‘first leaves / of the fresh, hope-lit / autumn morning’. It is a testimony to a special spirit.
Midnight at the Saltmarsh – Martina Dalton
Martina Dalton’s patiently assembled first collection opens with a poem that recounts a story laden with mystery. Other poems swerve between the record of experience and another the last day outing with her father. The book culminates in a series of poems set in The Black Valley of County Kerry in which the author confronts her isolation. In poems of loss and healing Midnight at the Saltmarsh bravely reveals a woman’s lived life, her needs, longings and satisfactions.
Atlantic Fret – Stephen de Búrca
Atlantic Fret unveils a focus, indeed a constancy of purpose, uncommon in a first collection. In its impressive range of formal attainment, including the elegiac title sequence and the imaginative ‘Tide Clock’ sequence, Atlantic Fret reveals a writer sensitively attuned to inner and outer tensions. The result is a poetry collection that is genuinely affecting.
Lives of the Saints – Mícheál McCann
Centrepieces of this eclectic collection are an ode to a recycling centre and ‘The Impossible Request’ in which the poet’s grandmother forgets that he has told her that he is gay (‘I know, pet, I know’) and asks if he has any girlfriends yet. Assured in its risks, vigorous in its enthusiasms, from its first ecstatic injunction Lives of the Saints is a collection to make one think and feel, then think again.
