Pigeon Songs

A collection of poems about fatherhood, children, miscarriage and pigeons. Shortlisted for the Piggot Prize. I write a sonnet sequence about losing a child, and try to break language a little in a number of poems in the voice of a pigeon.

"Eoghan Walls’s Pigeon Songs is a reviewer’s (and any sensible reader’s) delight. It works through a dizzying richness of topics and motifs … The inventiveness of the collection is also marked by the fresh narratives that Walls offers." - David Malcolm, Poetry Salzburg Review, July 2020.

“There’s impressive range in Pigeon Songs. Walls, it should not be doubted, has the ability to deeply conceive and map out such flights of imagination, and to offer them on the page with singular power.” - Martin Dyar, Poetry Ireland Review, October 7, 2019

“Formal metre and structure, by definition, don’t usually signify content that can flow free and wild. This is why Eoghan Walls’s Pigeon Songs is such a refreshing read. Its content, themes, tone and free word play are not what you might expect sitting within stanzas so formal. The juxtaposition of content and form give the reader a thrill.” - Liam Nolan, Gwales, July 16, 2019

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