Wake Forest University Press

Third in the series that brings lesser-known Irish voices to our American audience. Editor and renowned poet Conor O'Callaghan has selected poetry by Colette Bryce, Justin Quinn, John McAuliffe, Maurice Riordan, and Gerald Fanning. Additionally, O'Callaghan includes interviews with each author.

Upcoming Spring 2013

2005   80 pages 
clothbound first edition with plain vellum wrapper
Limited, signed, & numbered

Short-listed for the Irish Times Poetry Now Prize

"The Irish poet Conor O'Callaghan ought to have more of a reputation here: few American poets his age (he is thirty-eight) bring to the cozy matter of domesticity so much vigor and readiness. ...The house-of-mirrors deceits and self-deceits of estranged lovers here receive full, impressive representation. ..." Poetry

2005   80 pages
paperback

Short-listed for the Irish Times Poetry Now Prize

"Fiction is good at producing ... darkness-tinged satisfactions." Chris Jennings, Books in Canada

2000   96 pages
clothbound

"Seatown is deft, intelligent, a masterpiece of moody atmospherics. O'Callaghan has painstakingly assembled a faultless body of poems that haunt and persist." Sinéad Morrissey, PN Review

2000   96 pages
paperback

"O'Callaghan's poetry is marvellously his own. … [Its] bewitching obliquity … obviates neat conclusions. What is evident from Seatown and its predecessor is that Conor O'Callaghan is a gifted poet." Stephen Knight, The Literary Supplement