Message in a Bottle poems

'Dear Postie' by Joe Carrick-Varty 
From More Sky (Carcanet Press, 2023) 
Reproduced by kind permission of the author & publisher 
 

'Every Immigrant's Dream' by Polina Cosgrave
From My Name Is (Dedalus Press, 2020)
Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher.
 

'Fan' by Tom French 
From Company (The Gallery Press, 2022)
Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher.
 

'The Migrant Dictionary' by Rafael Mendes 
From Trumpet 11
Reproduced by kind permission of the author.
 

'Risk' by Molly Twomey 
From Raised Among Vultures (The Gallery Press, 2022)
Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher.

 

'Greidhlic' by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
From The Astrakhan Cloak (The Gallery Press, 1992)
Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher.
 

'Samphire' by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, translated from the Irish by Paul Muldoon 
From The Astrakhan Cloak (The Gallery Press, 1992)
Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher.

'Lighthouse' by Sinéad Morrissey
From Parallax (Carcanet Press, 2013)
Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher.
 

'50ml of India Ink' by Padraig Regan
From Some Integrity (Carcanet Press, 2022)
Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher.
 

From 'Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō'
(University of California Press, 2022)
Reproduced by kind permission of the translator and publisher.
 

'Miracles' by Brenda Shaughnessy
From Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press, 2012)
Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher.