# Ruth O'Callaghan

> Ruth O'Callaghan is a London poet, mentor and workshop leader, with seventeen collections and the Camden and Lumen poetry readings.

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## Pages

- [Ruth O'Callaghan, poet](https://ruthocallaghan.com): Ruth O'Callaghan is a London poet, mentor and workshop leader, with seventeen collections and the Camden and Lumen poetry readings. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [About](https://ruthocallaghan.com/about): Ruth O'Callaghan's life and work: her collections, fellowships, residencies, readings and theatre writing. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Books](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books): Ruth O'Callaghan's seventeen collections of poetry, her book of interviews with women poets, an anthology and a translation. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [An Unfinished Sufficiency](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/an-unfinished-sufficiency): Ruth O'Callaghan's 2015 collection from Salmon Poetry. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Cell](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/cell): Ruth O'Callaghan's 2025 collection from Shoestring Press. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Double Binary](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/double-binary): Ruth O'Callaghan's 2022 collection from Shoestring Press. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Mapping the Light](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/mapping-the-light): A book-length sequence on London's immigrants, from the Irish navvies to the Windrush generation and Brexit. Shoestring Press, 2018. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Threads](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/threads): Ruth O'Callaghan's seventeenth collection: poems of the personal and the political. Two Rivers Press, 2026. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Undisclosed](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/undisclosed): Ruth O'Callaghan's 2023 collection from Shoestring Press. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Unportioned: New and Selected Short Poems](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/unportioned): Ruth O'Callaghan's short poems, new and selected. Salmon Poetry, 2019. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Where Shadow Falls](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/where-shadow-falls): Poems that take in prostitution, prison and political deception. Two Rivers Press, 2023. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Wringing Blood: New and Selected Long Poems](https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/wringing-blood): Ruth O'Callaghan's long poems, new and selected. Salmon Poetry, 2018. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Contact](https://ruthocallaghan.com/contact): Write to Ruth O'Callaghan about readings, workshops, mentoring or her books. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Poems](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems): Sixteen poems by Ruth O'Callaghan, from five of her collections and the Strandlines project. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [3.47p.m.](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/3-47pm): "3.47p.m.", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from A Lope of Time. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [A Calculation of Dark](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/a-calculation-of-dark): "A Calculation of Dark", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from An Unfinished Sufficiency. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Autopsy](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/autopsy): "Autopsy", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from A Lope of Time. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Easter Sunday](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/easter-sunday): "Easter Sunday", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from Another Morning of Quiet Pleasures. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Josif](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/josif): "Josif", a poem Ruth O'Callaghan wrote for Strandlines, King's College London's community project on the Strand. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Journal](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/journal): "Journal", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from A Lope of Time. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Meine Liebe Mütter](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/meine-liebe-mutter): "Meine Liebe Mütter", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from Vortices. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Miss Hathaway Sweeps Her Path in Autumn 1916](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/miss-hathaway-sweeps-her-path): "Miss Hathaway Sweeps Her Path in Autumn 1916", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from Vortices. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Naissance](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/naissance): "Naissance", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from The Silence Unheard. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Narrative](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/narrative): "Narrative", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from An Unfinished Sufficiency. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [No such place exists now](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/no-such-place-exists-now): "No such place exists now", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from Another Morning of Quiet Pleasures. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Perspective](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/perspective): "Perspective", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from An Unfinished Sufficiency. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Safari](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/safari): "Safari", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from An Unfinished Sufficiency. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Survivor](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/survivor): "Survivor", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from Vortices. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Vasilije: Christmas Eve: The Strand](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/vasilije): "Vasilije: Christmas Eve: The Strand", a poem Ruth O'Callaghan wrote for Strandlines, King's College London's community project on the Strand. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Witness](https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/witness): "Witness", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from The Silence Unheard. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Camden and Lumen Poetry](https://ruthocallaghan.com/readings): Ruth O'Callaghan's two London reading series, which raise money for the Cold Weather Shelters in Camden and King's Cross. _(updated 2026-10-12)_
- [Workshops and mentoring](https://ruthocallaghan.com/workshops): Ruth O'Callaghan mentors poets towards a first or a new collection, and leads small workshops in London and at festivals. _(updated 2026-10-12)_