The Salt Harvest

My debut poetry collection, shortlisted for the Strong Award for Best First Collection. A selection of grotesque and sensual poems, tracing my early life, first love, first children and the death of my mother. Formal verse, gnarled language, visceral & loving.

“what separates The Salt Harvest from many first collections is a willingness to look for the poetic in pretty much anything, an almost aureate diction, and a darkly exuberant style … the vigour and reach of The Salt Harvest makes him a poet worth watching.” - Ben Wilkinson, in The Guardian, Saturday 21 April 2012

“Walls wields a voice which strikes out on its own and, like all the best poetic voices, seems almost entirely to lack antecedents … in style, outlook and subject Walls is his own man: here, “praise be”, is a voice bringing something really new, and without straining the buttons to achieve it.” - Miriam Gamble in The Edinburgh Review #134 (date needed). 2012 I

“Auden thought of poems as ‘verbal contraptions’ and those in Eoghan Walls’ book are intense, allusive, darkly apocalyptic, clever and full of brilliants.” - Martin Crucefix in Poetry London 72, Summer 2012

Click here to buy; if you would rather read a sample first, here's a sample poem.