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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.2009

What Vanishes

What Vanishes contains four sections: poems of place and displacement set in such far-flung locales as Budapest, Berkeley, Vancouver, Point Pleasant, and the skies above Australia along with Dublin, Ballybunion, Dingle, and Drumcliffe; poems of love and loss, engagement, alienation, and endurance; poems focused on music and musicians, from blues to bluegrass to punk to jazz; and...

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2006

She Alone

She Alone, a book-length poetic sequence, traces the life of an imaginary woman from birth to death and beyond, employing a wide range of forms from free verse to heroic couplets and a broad array of poetic devices, all designed to capture the changing moods and circumstances of this enigmatic, nameless woman and her lifelong struggle to find fulfillment, connection, and a stable...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.1999

All the Money in the World

In an array of approaches as varied as its subject matter, All the Money in the World explores love, loss, music, mystery, tensions, terrors, ecstasies, and endings. By turns lyrical, abstract, anguished, celebratory, humorous and reflective, these poems move between a nuanced appreciation of how things are and an intense longing for how they might be.

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.2007

Selections in: Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007

Salmon: A Journey in Poetry 1981-2007 celebrates 26 years of innovative and exciting Irish and international poetry. The organization of the volume is simple: two poems from the poet’s Salmon collection (or collections) and one uncollected poem. Detailed biographical notes for each poet, and a complete bilbiography of Salmon's publications, are also included. Three of my poems...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2007

A Rumor of Rain

As the rainy season approaches, an L.A. couple’s casual chat about the weather leads them across minefields of language, desire, and discontent to a place apart.

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Nov.11.2009 - 4:39 pm

Poetry (Mine) and Jazz: Podcasts featuring me reading poems about various jazz musicians accompanied by musical selections

I write many different kinds of poems, but one kind involves poetry about jazz and various jazz musicians. This week (11/11/09) and two of the last three weeks before that some...

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To Put Away Childish Things?: A Short Play

Sometimes: A Short Play

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She Alone

Published by The Hudson Review

Excerpt from The Hudson Review, Spring 2007 John Menaghan has published one of the best books of 2006. She Alone is a sort of novel in verse or fictional biography, but neither...

About John

A prize-winning poet and playwright, John Menaghan has published three books with Salmon Poetry (Ireland): All the Money in the World (1999), She Alone (2006), and What Vanishes (2009). Kirkus Reviews called All the Money in the World "an auspicious...

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