Oisín Breen

Poet

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

Email:

oisin.p.a.breen@gmail.com

Website:

www.oisinbreen.com

Twitter/X:

@Breen

Author's Bio

Multiply award-nominated (Best of the Net x3, Erbacce x2, Scotsman x 1) Irish poet and journalist, Oisín Breen is published in 141 journals in 24 countries, including Agenda, Acumen, the Irish Times, 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 out 2026 (Salmon Poetry).

Overall, he has 280 poems, a small number of short stories, and at least 750 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 2026, 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, Acumen, 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, Wingless Dreamer, Yellerzine, ShabdAaweg, Stepaway, Roadrunner Review, Nevermore, The Belfast Review, Free State Review, Ground Up, Inklette, Euphony, Interim, Roi Fainéant, Thieving Magpie, MIROnline, Sibyl, New Critique, Reservoir Road, Decomp, Grub Street, WRFL, New Feathers Anthology, Oxford Middle East Review, Lucent Dreaming, Heartwood, Universe, Fiery Scribe, Zvona i Nari, October Hill, Red Ogre, Poetica, Drawn to the Light, AvantAppalachia, Stratford Quarterly, the Blue Nib, Kamena, Amphora Magazine, the Kleksograph, Riverbed Review, the Unbound Brooklyn Journal, Mortal Mag, Genuine Gold, Postscript, the Ocotillo Review, the Bosphorus Review, Book of Matches, Blue Lake Review, Wise Owl, The Tahoma Literary Review, NōD, Crowvus, a New Ulster, Expanded Field, Revolute, Aji, Griffel, Seventh Quarry, Camas, the Martello, Inverted Syntax, Active Muse, Sunday Mornings at the River, Soundings East, Abstract, Fresh Words, Carmina, Big Windows Review, the Candyman’s Trumpet, Aphor, the Literary Hatchet, the White Wall Review, Consilience, New Plains Review, the Elevation Review, Milk House, Pangyrus, Spectra, Rock & Sling, Die Leere Mitte, Southword, Delta Poetry Review, Pinhole Poetry, Thimble, the Exacting Clam, Nether, Lotus Eater, Agenda, Crest, Coffin Bell, Punt Volat, Amphibian, Twenty-Two-Twenty-Eight, Across the Margins, Crowstep, Poetry Wales, Coalition for Digital Narratives, the Mantelpiece, and the anthologies An Áitiúil, Autumn Noir, Penned Poetry for Parkinson's Research, and Spirit of Fire and Dust, An Áitiúil, The Black Earth Institute.

He also has work forthcoming in The Irish Times, Quadrant, Exacting Clam, a New Ulster and Flooded Pine.

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.

Sample performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUd5tGoRF5c

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:

Six Months Bought with Dirt: https://www.themadrigalpress.com/six-mon...

A Tweed Spinner Watches the Water Churn: https://www.themadrigalpress.com/a-tweed...

Tender Ministry: https://whitewallreview.com/a-tender-min...

Even Small Birds can Render Planets into Ash: https://poetrywales.co.uk/oisin-breen-ho...

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

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