A work of great emotional clarity and honesty, a poetry at once intimate and universal, from a poet who goes from strength to strength with every year.
The Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets: Poems and Essays is an anthology of the work of twenty-four Irish poets born in the last fifty years.
The poems in Joan McBreen's quietly lyrical fourth collection compose a settlement for the heart, even a site for soul-pondering. Eamon Grennan
Winter in the Eye: New & Selected Poems brings together Joan McBreen's recent work with poems selected from her two previous collections.
The White Page/An Bhileog Bhán is a comprehensive study of Irish women's poetry published in book form in the twentieth century.
The gift of Joan McBreen's poetry is her ability to distill the essence of a moment, and bring its unique insight as a flame to light the darkness of our understanding.
Joan McBreen is a phenomenon... This book introduces her fresh, intense voice to the American reader.