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title: "Wringing Blood: New and Selected Long Poems"
url: "https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/wringing-blood"
updated: 2026-10-12
description: "Ruth O'Callaghan's long poems, new and selected. Salmon Poetry, 2018."
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# Wringing Blood: New and Selected Long Poems

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_Salmon Poetry, 2018. 86 pages. ISBN 9781912561339._

Ruth's long poems, new and selected. She launched the book at the Gibraltar International Literary Festival in 2018.

> Ruth O'Callaghan's poetry has a rare ability to sustain the highest emotional and spiritual stakes. Every word takes the risk of meaning – and feeling – through both register and music.– Fiona Sampson, on _The Silence Unheard_

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