Oisín Breen

Poet

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

Email:

oisin.p.a.breen@gmail.com

Website:

mastodon.ie/@Breen

Twitter/X:

@Breen

Author's Bio

Irish poet and journalist, Oisín Breen is published in 135 journals in 24 countries, including Agenda, Acumen, Books Ireland, Quadrant, Southword, North Dakota Quarterly and The Tahoma Literary Review. Breen has two collections, Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, a Scotsman poetry book-of-the-year, 2023 (Downingfield), and his well received debut, Flowers, All Sorts, in Blossom, Figs, Berries, and Fruits Forgotten (Dreich, 2020). Breen’s third collection, The Kergyma, is due Autumn/Winter 2025 (Salmon Poetry).

Overall, he has 279 poems, a small number of short stories, and at least 500 articles and essays to his name.

Dublin-born Breen's second collection, the widely reviewed and highly praised second collection, Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín & Other Poems, a Scotsman newspaper book of the year for 2023 is available through Downingfield Press, here:

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produc...

And here (as well as through most good bookshops): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0645231819

His critically aclaimed debut collection, Flowers, all sorts in blossom, figs, berries, and fruits, forgotten was released Mar. 2020 by Edinburgh’s Hybrid/Dreich Press. It is now fully sold out of its print run. If you are interested in reissuing the work, please get in touch.

Breen's third collection, The Kergyma, is slated for release in 2025, through Salmon Poetry.

Primarily a proponent of long-form style-orientated poetry infused with the philosophical, Breen has been published (as a poet) in About Place, La Piccioletta Barca, Books Ireland, North Dakota Quarterly, Northern Gravy, the Seattle Star, Modern Literature, Drunk Monkeys, Dreich, New English Review, Metaworker, Mono, Crow of Minerva, the Madrigal, Black Poppy, Permeable Barrier, Visual Verse, Meniscus Australia, In Parentheses, Kairos, Discretionary Love, Loch Raven Review, The Gyroscope Review, The Saltbush Review, the Banyon Review, Phantom Kangaroo, Griffel, Door is a Jar, The Ogham Stone, Gaia Literary Review, New Note, Cathexis North West, Wingless Dreamer, Yellerzine, ShabdAaweg, Stepaway, Roadrunner Review, Nevermore, The Belfast Review, Free State Review, Big Windows, Ground Up, Inklette, Euphony, Interim, Roi Fainéant, Thieving Magpie, MIROnline, Sibyl, New Critique, Reservoir Road, Acumen, Decomp, Grub Street, WRFL, New Feathers Anthology, Oxford Middle East Review, Lucent Dreaming, Heartwood, Aphor, Universe, Fiery Scribe, Zvona i Nari, October Hill, Red Ogre, Poetica, Drawn to the Light, AvantAppalachia, Stratford Quarterly, the Blue Nib, Kamena, the White Wall Review, Amphora Magazine, the Kleksograph, Riverbed Review, the Unbound Brooklyn Journal, Mortal Mag, Genuine Gold, Postscript, the Ocotillo Review, the Bosphorus Review, Book of Matches, The Tahoma Literary Review, Crowvus, Expanded Field, Revolute, Aji, Griffel, Seventh Quarry, Camas, the Martello, Inverted Syntax, Active Muse, Sunday Mornings at the River, Soundings East, Consilience, New Plains Review, the Elevation Review, Milk House, Pangyrus, Spectra, Rock & Sling, Die Leere Mitte, Thimble, the Exacting Clam, Nether, Lotus Eater, NōD, Agenda, Crest, Coffin Bell, Punt Volat, Amphibian, Twenty-Two-Twenty-Eight, Across the Margins, Southword, Carmina, Delta Poetry Review, Fresh Words, the Candyman's Trumpet, The Literary Hatchet, Pinhole Poetry, Wise Owl, Blue Lake Review, Crowstep, Poetry Wales, Coalition for Digital Narratives, Sybil, the Mantelpiece, and in the anthologies An Áitiúil, Autumn Noir, Penned Poetry for Parkinson's Research, and Spirit of Fire and Dust.

He also has work forthcoming in Quadrant, Abstract.

Twitter: @Breen

Bluesky: @oisinbreen.bsky.social

Mastodon: @Breen@mastodon.ie

In non-fiction, Breen is published in the Blue Mountain Review, as a social journalist, RIABiz.com as a financial journalist, FXStreet, as a foreign exchange trade reporter, where he was nominated as writer of the year, and SeekingAlpha as a stock analyst.

Selected podcasts include:

An analysis with a light-heart of Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/...

Discussion on writing, and including a performance of 'The Lapwing', here: https://northerngravy.com/podcast-3/

Discussion on writing, philosophy, and a performance of 'The Borderland Furies', here: https://themetaworker.com/2023/03/13/pod...

Poems available to read online include:

What the Fire Talks (Punt Volat): https://puntvolatlit.com/what-the-fire-t...

Two Poems (Coalition): https://coalitionfordigitalnarratives.or...

Three Poems (Across the Margins): https://acrossthemargin.com/three-poems-...

Time moves swiftly even through the leaves of trees (the Seattle Star): https://www.seattlestar.net/2021/04/time...

October (the Seattle Star):
https://www.seattlestar.net/2021/06/octo...

The Path to Wonder Ever Carries Traces of Oblivion (the Bosphorus Review):
https://bosphorusreview.com/the-path-to-...

Cold Stone Does Not Carry Meaning (Visual Verse):
https://visualverse.org/submissions/cold...