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title: "Books"
url: "https://ruthocallaghan.com/books"
updated: 2026-10-12
description: "Ruth O'Callaghan's seventeen collections of poetry, her book of interviews with women poets, an anthology and a translation."
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# Books

Seventeen collections of poetry, a book of interviews with women poets, an anthology of Mongolian women's poetry and a translation from the Romanian.

- [Threads](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/threads)
- [Cell](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/cell)
- [Where Shadow Falls](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/where-shadow-falls)
- [Undisclosed](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/undisclosed)
- [Double Binary](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/double-binary)
- [Unportioned: New and Selected Short Poems](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/unportioned)
- [Wringing Blood: New and Selected Long Poems](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/wringing-blood)
- [Mapping the Light](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/mapping-the-light)
- [An Unfinished Sufficiency](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/an-unfinished-sufficiency)

## More collections

- _A Rickle of Bones_, Shoestring Press, 2020. [Buy from Central Books](https://www.centralbooks.com/rickle-of-bones-a.html)
- _Vortices_, Shoestring Press, 2016: poems of the First World War and the Holocaust
- _The Silence Unheard_, Shoestring Press, 2013
- _Another Morning of Quiet Pleasures_, Soaring Penguin Press, 2013
- _Un Salt în Timp_, a Romanian edition of _A Lope of Time_, University of Bucharest Press, 2012
- _Goater's Alley_, Shoestring Press, 2010
- _A Lope of Time_, Shoestring Press, 2009
- _Where Acid Has Etched_, bluechrome, 2007

## Interviews, an anthology and a translation

- _Without Skin: Interviews with 23 Internationally Renowned Women Poets_, Soaring Penguin Press. Clare Brant of King's College London called it "a very important contribution to world literary history".
- _Echoes from the Steppe: An Anthology of Contemporary Mongolian Women's Poetry_, edited by Ruth from her work in Mongolia, Soaring Penguin Press
- _Dan Verona: Selected Poems_, Ruth's English versions of the Romanian poet, with the Romanian alongside, Contemporary Literature Press, Bucharest, 2011