Breaking Hearts and Traffic LightsIntimate and daring, the poems in Patrick Chapman's remarkable third collection explore with often searing clarity the naked spaces of love, sex and death. Startling, original, sometimes quietly devastating, this is the finest work to date from a writer hailed as one of the very best modern Irish poets. Patrick Chapman was born in 1968. His other poetry collections are Jazztown (Raven Arts Press, 1991) and The New Pornography (Salmon Poetry, 1996). He

Samuel Shimon: The Hedgehog – a chapter from an autobiographical novel

Driss Maliani: Poem

but also indicate how we might live better in the living world

Adnan Mohsen

Accessibly written for the lay reader

Daniel Tobin

the battle for the Vulcan pub

A collection of his own poems

Gathered over the course of decades

Dreamcatcher

Salmon Poetry have produced an attractive collection and are to be commended on their high production values

He has translated into Irish the selected poems of