Reviews

Black State Cars

"Like all true poets, Alan Jude Moore is galvanised into urgent poetic utterance by everything that strikes upon his highly tuned sensitivity. His is a precise, energetic, inclusive vision, married to an excellent sureness and spontaneity of voice. Black State Cars demonstrates both how devotedly and scrupulously Moore controls his profound emotions in the interests of authentic poetic expression, and his power in channelling those very emotions with an understanding and refinement that is both imposingly faithful and memorably elegiac."

- Michael Wynne in The Stinging Fly


"What is necessary is to seek new forms and new language to express new ideas and experience. Moore is doing so, and that is what makes Black State Cars an important and essential collection."

- Michael S. Begnal in Poetry Ireland Review, issue 82.


Lost Republics

Coming soon.

Moscow Calling

Poems from "BLACK STATE CARS" were recently published in Russian by the Moscow literary journal, NOVAYA JUNOST.

Poems in Italian

Some poems published in translation by Italian literary journal PELAGOS. They did a special Irish edition and several Irish poets are included in the issue.

Glossary V

Mandelstam (pg 36) - Osip Mandelstam was a Russian poet (although born in Warsaw), exiled by the Stalinist authorities to Vladivostok where he died in 1938. He spent time in Voronezh, a city about 800 km south of Moscow.

Several Russian nuclear submarines were named after cities heavily involved in the Second World War (or the Great Patriotic War as it is known in Russia). One of these vessels was named after Voronezh but the most well known is probably the ill-fated Kursk.


Next, Ostia

Publications

Debut collection from Salmon Poetry (2004) - Winner of the Salmon Publication Prize for a first collection.










Salmon Poetry Anthology (2007) - Edited by Jessie Lendennie, the anthology contains work from each poet who has been published by Salmon since its inception in 1981.











New Collection from Salmon Poetry (2008)