Category: Menagerie

  • GALWAY LAUNCH – MENAGERIE

    Book launch for Menagerie, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in Galway City. Joint launch for Menagerie & Washing Windows V both from Arlen House Celebrating Arlen House at 50

  • EVENTS – 2025

    21st March: Nora Barnacle Birthday event at Galway Grá Festival in Galway’s Latin Quarter. 4pm, Town Hall Theatre bar. Details here. 27th March: Launch of essay anthology Wired Our Own Way (New Island Books), 6pm, Hodges Figgis, Dublin. 28th March: Launch of short story anthology Take Six: Six Irish Women Writers (Dedalus Books), 6pm, Charlie…

  • Irish Times Review – Menagerie

    Happy International Women’s Day! I’m very happy today to get this review of Menagerie in the Irish Times. Thanks, Carl Phillips. A snippet: ‘…a warm feelingful generosity of vision and a distant, diagnostic eye…a collection which is at once involving and clear-sighted.’ Pre-order the book here.

  • MENAGERIE – PRE-ORDER

    Pre-order *Menagerie* HERE from Books Upstairs. My new poetry collection Menagerie is out 31st March from Arlen House. Here’s what poet Patrick Chapman has to say about it: ‘Celebrated as a novelist with a lyrical style, Nuala O’Connor has always been a quietly showstopping poet as well. In Menagerie, we are struck by the compassion…

  • MENAGERIE – new poetry collection

    Arlen House is celebrating 50 Years in 2025, and I have a new poetry collection, Menagerie – my first since 2011! – forthcoming in March. I’ve had many beautiful blurbs from favourite poets, including Paula Meehan who says the poetry is ‘as wild as it gets: a kaleidoscopic collection of beautiful forms and patternings.’ The…