Drunk Muse Press

Wildly good poetry books

OUT NOW: 'THE LEAVES OF THE YEARS', OUR NEW ANTHOLOGY IN TRIBUTE TO POET WILLIE NEILL. PLEASE SEE LINKS ON OUR 'SHOP' PAGE. COMING SOON: THE RED HOUSE BY SHARON BLACK & A NEW VOLUME OF POEMS BY DISSIDENT PALESTINIAN POET DAREEN TATOUR - PUBLISHED EXCLUSIVELY IN ENGLISH BY DRUNK MUSE PRESS

Dareen Tatour - A Poet in Exile

ALSO FROM DRUNK MUSE IN 2023: NEW VOLUMES BY MARK VERNON THOMAS, JULIE MCNEILL, HOLLY MAGILL, ANDY MURRAY AND THE MULTI-LINGUAL ANTHOLOGY 'CRUINNEACHADH' WITH TRANSLATIONS BY MARCAS MAC AN TUAIRNEIR

About us

Drunk Muse Press was founded in late 2020 by Neil Young and Hugh McMillan, based in Scotland, and Jessamine O' Connor in Ireland. Our purpose is to champion poetry that insists on wider attention . . . by poets with a compelling way of expressing it. The first Drunk Muse books were published in spring/summer of 2021. Watch this space for details of more to come.

In the Press

Dareen Tatour
MY THREATENING POEM - THE MEMOIR OF A POET IN OCCUPATION PRISONS

Passionate, direct and rich with humanity in the face of brute force and dehumanisation, Dareen Tatour recalls her experience from arrest through imprisonment for the 'crime' of writing defiant poetry. This book, published in translation from Arabic to English for the first time, is a testimony of the power of language, poetry and the human spirit to overcome violent authority.

Contact

For all enquiries, please email drunkmusepoems@hotmail.com