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Celebrate the publication of Render by Billy Ramsell

Introducing issue 21 (spring/summer 2026)

Render by Billy Ramsell is now available to pre-order

Render by Billy Ramsell is a Poetry Book Society Summer Selection

Join us for the launches of Found in a Context of Destruction by Tim MacGabhann

First look: Found in a Context of Destruction by Tim MacGabhann

Announcing the Banshee Press list for 2026

Introducing issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) – guest edited by Clara Kumagai

Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October

Celebrate the launch of Filly by Rosamund Taylor

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Render by Billy Ramsell

€12.00

136 pages
Paperback
4 June 2026
ISBN: 978-1-917161-19-0

Selected:
Poetry Book Society Summer Selections 2026

Found in a Context of Destruction by Tim MacGabhann

€12.00

104 pages
Paperback
5 February 2026
ISBN: 978-1-917161-01-5

Filly by Rosamund Taylor

€18.00

248 pages
Paperback
9 October 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7393979-8-2

Selected:
Cork One City One Book 2026

Harbour Doubts by Bebe Ashley

€12.00

78 pages
Paperback
3 July 2025
ISBN: 978-1-917161-00-8

Winner:
Ivan Juritz Prize 2023

Tenterhooks by Claire-Lise Kieffer

€18.00

176 pages
Paperback
6 February 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7393979-6-8

Let's Dance by Lucy Sweeney Byrne

€18.00

190 pages
Paperback
3 October 2024
ISBN: 978-1-7393979-7-5

High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett

€12.00

104 pages
Paperback
4 July 2024
ISBN: 978-1-7393979-5-1

Winner:
John Pollard International Poetry Prize 2025
Southword Debut Poetry Collection Award 2025

Shortlisted:
T. S. Eliot Prize 2024
Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2025
Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize 2025

Penelope Unbound by Mary Morrissy

€12.00

314 pages
Mass market paperback
20 February 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7393979-9-9

Let the Dead by Dylan Brennan

€10.00

112 pages
Paperback
8 June 2023
ISBN: 978-1-8383126-9-5

Longlisted:
Laurel Prize 2024

Pacemaker by David Toms

€15.00

176 pages
Hardback
15 September 2022
ISBN: 978-1-8383126-5-7

In Her Jaws by Rosamund Taylor

€10.00

80 pages
Paperback
19 May 2022
ISBN: 978-1-8383126-4-0

Shortlisted:
Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize 2023
Yeats Society Poetry Prize 2023

Longlisted:
Polari First Book Prize 2023

I Want to Know That I Will Be Okay by Deirdre Sullivan

€13.00

192 pages
Paperback
13 May 2021
ISBN: 978-0-9956550-7-2

Gold Light Shining by Bebe Ashley

€10.00

72 pages
Paperback
22 October 2020
ISBN: 978-0-9956550-8-9

Paris Syndrome by Lucy Sweeney Byrne

€10.00

256 pages
Mass market paperback
1 August 2021
ISBN: 978-1-8383126-2-6

Shortlisted:
Edge Hill Prize 2020
Kate O'Brien Award 2020
Butler Literary Award 2020
John McGahern Annual Book Prize 2019
Dalkey Literary Awards Emerging Writer 2020

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‘The Red Child’ by Patrick Freyne

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‘Aubade!’ by Olivia Heggarty

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‘Best Friends’ by Ger Duffy

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‘Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder’ by Caspar Bryant

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‘Karita’ by P. Kearney Byrne

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‘Dormouse’ by Aoife Lyall

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‘Excision’ by Elizabeth O’Neill

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Poetry

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‘The Stars’ by Vasiliki Albedo

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Fiction

Niall McArdle, issue 4

‘The Two of Hearts’ by Niall McArdle

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Poetry

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‘When You Unravel’ by Eleanor Hooker

Poetry

Eleanor Hooker, issue 9

Poetry

Eleanor Hooker, issue 9

Banshee: A Literary Journal

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Issue 21 | Spring/Summer 2026

€10.00

104 pages

ISSN: 2009-857X

ISBN: 978-1-917161-23-7

Issue 15 | Spring/Summer 2023

€5.00 €9.00

162 pages

ISSN: 2009-857X

ISBN: 978-1-7396227-1-8

Issue 13 | Spring/Summer 2022

€5.00 €9.00

176 pages

ISSN: 2009-857X

ISBN: 978-1-8383126-6-4

Issue 12 | Autumn/Winter 2021

€5.00 €9.00

Guest-edited by John Patrick McHugh and Jessica Traynor

170 pages

ISSN: 2009-857X

ISBN: 978-1-8383126-3-3