The Amergin Step is named after the famous poem that Leabhar Gabhála Éireann tells us was recited by the poet and lawmaker of the Gaelic Milesian people, as he stepped ashore in Kerry after their voyage from Galicia. The Amergin Step is also a call for an imaginative step into the places we inhabit so that, like Amergin’s poem, we can try to identify with our places rather than own them. Our survival, the book argues, depends on taking this step.

On a Turning Wing is a collection of poems (published April 2016) That explores, among other things, the balance between creative freedom and the artist’s responsibility to engage.

“The leading poet writing in both Irish and English”
Bernard O’Donoghue

Voices of the World’s Edge - Dublin-born poet Paddy Bushe, a longtime resident of the Kerry coast, guides Irish and English language poets (Woods, Ní Chuilleanáin, Deane, O’Donoghue and others) out to the ancient monastic site of Skellig Michael off Ireland’s south-west coast.

Second Sight presents Paddy Bushe’s own selection from three previous Irish language books, accompanied by the poet’s own translations in a dual-language, facing pages format. The hardback edition of the book, entitled Double Vision, also contains the complete text of his new English language volume, Peripheral Vision.

To Ring in Silence - New and Selected Poems from Paddy Bushe,  one of the most admired poets now writing in both English and Irish. Available on Amazon Kindle HERE

Peripheral Vision is Paddy Bushe’s latest collection of poems in English. The hardback edition, entitled Double Vision, also contains the complete text of Second Sight, his own selection from three previous Irish language books, accompanied by the poet’s own translations, in a dual language, facing pages format.

Paddy Bushe’s 2011 collection of poetry, My Lord Buddha of Carraig Éanna, inspired by both travels abroad and his home place.

Previous publications include:

  • Poems With Amergin (Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1989)

  • Teanga (Baile Átha Cliath, Coiscéim, 1990)

  • Counsellor (Kerry, Sceilg Press, 1991)

  • Digging Towards The Light (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 1994)

  • In Ainneoin na gCloch (Coiscéim, 2001)

  • Hopkins on Skellig Michael (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2001)

  • The Nitpicking of Cranes (Dedalus, 2004)

  • To Ring in Silence, new and selected poems (Dedalus, 2008)