On the last day of 2025, a look back at some of the poetry books that have kept me company or whispered their words over the podcast this year, most of them new collections though some took a while to get to me.
Christmas & Winter Anthology 6 from Black Bough Poetry
Beautiful Little Fools anthology from The Broken Spine
Why I Wear my Past to Work by Chris Campbell
Out There by Fidel Hogan Walsh
An Ocean Called Hope by S. C. Flynn
Time’s Guest by Kevin Graham
Chic to be Sad by Molly Twomey
Savage Acres by Keith Payne
The Cat Prince and Other Poems by Michael Pedersen
Masters by Mark Ward
How We Arrive in Winter by Liz Quirke
Birthmark by Christina Hennemann
Blood Atlas by Luke Morgan
All That Jazz by Gerry Boland
The Migrant Dictionary by Rafael Mendes
Midnight Solo by Deirdre Cartmill
Museum by Dragana Jurišić and Paula Meehan
On Being Un/Able to Walk Through Walls by D’or Seifer
Taxidermy Heart by Lauren O’Donovan
Superposition by Lauren O’Donovan
New Soil by Pamela Muller
à la belle étoile by Afric McGlinchy
Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun) by Machán Magan
The Stoney Collection, Volume Two, edited by Paul Carreo and Lorna Keane
Matches by Catherine Gander
Wonder Lines by Vickey Allen
Dancing Dan’s Christmas by Damon Runyon
The Stoney Thursday Book, edited by Victoria Kennefick
Untamed Nature and Untamed Love / The Whiskey Tree anthology from The Broken Spine
Poetry Ireland Review, No. 146, edited by Stephen Sexton
Wonderful by Harry Barker
The Storms, Issue V, the printed journal of poetry, prose and visual art
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year and looking forward to discovering all that words that will keep us company, Dami x
Storm Shelter 
Happy New Year, Dami! 💙
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