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title: "Poems"
url: "https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems"
updated: 2026-10-12
description: "Sixteen poems by Ruth O'Callaghan, from five of her collections and the Strandlines project."
---

# Poems

Sixteen of Ruth's poems, from five of her collections and from Strandlines, the King's College London project on the Strand.

## _Vortices_, 2016

- [Miss Hathaway Sweeps Her Path in Autumn 1916](/poems/miss-hathaway-sweeps-her-path)
- [Meine Liebe Mütter](/poems/meine-liebe-mutter)
- [Survivor](/poems/survivor)

## _[An Unfinished Sufficiency](/books/an-unfinished-sufficiency)_, 2015

- [A Calculation of Dark](/poems/a-calculation-of-dark)
- [Safari](/poems/safari)
- [Narrative](/poems/narrative)
- [Perspective](/poems/perspective)

## _The Silence Unheard_, 2013

- [Naissance](/poems/naissance)
- [Witness](/poems/witness)

## _Another Morning of Quiet Pleasures_, 2013

- [Easter Sunday](/poems/easter-sunday)
- [No such place exists now](/poems/no-such-place-exists-now)

## _A Lope of Time_, 2009

- [Autopsy](/poems/autopsy)
- [Journal](/poems/journal)
- [3.47p.m.](/poems/3-47pm)

## Written for Strandlines, 2019

- [Vasilije: Christmas Eve: The Strand](/poems/vasilije)
- [Josif](/poems/josif)

## Elsewhere

- [Her poems in Stand](https://www.standmagazine.org/contributors/ruth-ocallaghan/746)
- [Nick Cooke on _Mapping the Light_](https://londongrip.co.uk/2018/08/london-grip-poetry-review-ruth-ocallaghan/), London Grip, August 2018