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The Fat-hen Field Hospital:
Byron reveals a new directness of gaze at the violence women and men visit on each other and on the natural world, and sounds a new note of celebration in the poems set in her native Ireland, while continuing her powerful reassessment of women's history.
"In language that is wonderfully precise and sensuous, these poems explore the threads that run between the human and non-human dimensions of the world." - Carole Satyamurti
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Northern Poetry Vol. 1: eds. Catherine Byron, John Lyons
Anthology of twelve contemporary poets from the North of England, each represented by either a sequence of poems or a longer poem. Includes M R Peacocke, Ian Duhig, Adele Geras, David Craig, etc.
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Out of Step:
A unique work of autobiography, literary criticism, travel-writing and self- and social analysis. Byron 'footsteps' Heaney to Station Island in the wilds of County Donegal to do the ancient three-day pilgrimage of St Patrick's Purgatory. She listens out for the unvoiced feminine in his silences and omissions, and in the place itself. The experience radically alters her feminist perspective on Heaney's work, on herself as reader, and on the legacy of her own Catholic childhood in Belfast.
"I expected a critical academic tome. What i found was a wildly refreshing travel tale. I think anybody on this island will recognise such a lot about themselves." Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio Ulster
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Settlements and Samhain:
Catherine Byron's first poetry collection has become a classic of Irish exile. This edition is an expanded version, and includes her Radio Eireann Play of the Week (1993) 'Samhain'.
"[S]he negotiates with remarkable skill [the] limbo between present and past, hunting echoes and rhythms of self in a series of poetic journeys... her rites of passage are conveyed with an intense and scouring honesty." Tom Adair, Linen Hall Review
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