Even the Trees
$28.04
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2026
Summary
Joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize
In her debut collection Roshni Gallagher asks what can be seen, named or remembered. From Scotland to Guyana, the poems explore the porous boundary between the past and the present, and how ecological landscapes and landscapes of the mind and body are permanently altered by migration and memory. The elegiac series of poems Kala Pani reflects on the history and legacy of Indian indentured labourers in the Caribbean. Following the ex…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780377766 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780377762 |
| Author: | Roshni Gallagher |
| Publisher: | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 156mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
What impresses me most about this debut collection is its honouring of our humanity, the naming of ordinary people with extraordinary lives. The Kala Pani sequence epitomises this: poignant, exquisite and haunting. Roshni Gallagher’s poems are so visceral, so perceptive, so adept in their use of echoes and white space, they will, to quote her, make you ‘vigilant when you walk down a street’.
– Patience AgbabiIntelligent, searching, and beautifully written, Roshni Gallagher’s Even the Trees is an exceptional debut collection, full of enviable phrasing and insight. It’s wonderful to find a new poet whose work you know you will continue to follow.
– Karen SolieRoshni Gallagher
Roshni Gallagher is a poet and librarian from Leeds of mixed Indo-Guyanese and Irish heritage. She lives in Edinburgh.
She has received:
- An Edwin Morgan Poetry Award (2022)
- A Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award (2022)
- Joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize (2024)
Her pamphlet Bird Cherry was published by VERVE Poetry Press in 2023, and her first book-length collection, Even the Trees, is published by Bloodaxe Books in 2026.
Her work has appeared in a variety of literary publications including Best Scottish Poems, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, Irish Pages, and Magma. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of St Andrews.
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