LAUNCH: The Risen Tree by Bernadette Gallager
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Join us on Sunday 5th May for the launch of Bernadette Gallagher’s debut poetry collection, ‘The Risen Tree’.
Author Jessica Traynor will officially launch the book from 14:30. Books will be for sale, and all are welcome!
About the book:
“The Risen Tree” is Bernadette Gallagher’s debut poetry collection. It is thought-provoking contemplative poetry that touches upon themes of nature, growth, and human connection. The poems are inspired by and reference psalm verses from the Bible. The language is simple yet evocative giving them an intimate, conversational voice. Gallagher has a strong observant eye for small details of nature, which she uses to reflect on humanity. Published by Revival Press.
Observations on ‘The Risen Tree’: Alvy Carragher
‘The tautness of the lines leaves room for the reader to enter each experience, open the words of each psalm in their mind, and hold both their specificness and universality close. It feels as if this book speaks with such wisdom to many of the themes troubling societies today …. The fragility of life is keenly felt, and there’s such loss and longing among these words. The compactness and tidiness of the poems made them all the more vivid. There are many I will return to in time.’
About the author:
Bernadette Gallagher is a poet from Donegal living in County Cork. The Risen Tree, a debut poetry collection by Bernadette has been published by Revival Press, an imprint of the Limerick Writers’ Centre [2024].
Her work has been published in Crannóg, Agenda, The Stinging Fly, The North, Stony Thursday, The Frogmore Papers, Dreich, Southword 41, New Isles Press, Irish Examiner, Boyne Berries, ROPES, Stanzas, in the US peace journal DoveTales, Cork Words 3, Tabula Rasa, In the Cinnamon Corners, Ó Bhéal Five Words, In Dappled Shade and in various online journals. Her poem Father to Daughter was recently translated into Arabic and published in the Jordanian magazine Thaqafat.
A selection of her work has been recorded by the University College Dublin Poetry Archive and her poem ‘Coming Home’ has been added to the Words Lightly Spoken podcast. She has been invited to read her work in Ireland, UK, US, and at the Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi, India.
An essay by Bernadette on the poet Dorothea Herbert (1767-1829) is published in Irish Women Poets Rediscovered: Readings in Poetry from 18th – 20th Century edited by Maria Johnston and Conor Linnie; Publisher: Cork University Press, 2021.
She has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland and Cork County Council.
