Strasbourg (Salmon Poetry, 2010) Alan Jude Moore’s third collection, is about Dublin and the city but also, by extension, about Europe and our ideas of citizenship, about how we are more united by its expanse, by our common interests, needs and histories than we are divided by its nations and borders. It is about how as citizens of these places we are connected to something outside the nationalism and theocracy that constrained our development for almost a century. |  |
Lost Republics (Salmon Poetry, 2008) This superb second collection finds Moore’s distinctive voice, established in 2004’s Black State Cars, resonating with a new clarity and confidence. Influenced by the neo-modernist tendency but not necessarily of it, Moore avoids the languid, lyrical tonalities striven for and sometimes reached by the majority of his contemporaries. |  |
Black State Cars (Salmon Poetry, 2004) This is a precise, energetic, inclusive vision, married to an excellent sureness and spontaneity of voice. Black State Cars (published -- deservedly -- via the Salmon Poetry Publication Prize) demonstrates both how devotedly and scrupulously Moore controls his profound emotions in the interests of authentic poetic expression, and his power in channelling those very emotions with an understanding and refinement that is both imposingly faithful and memorably elegiac. I recommend this collection unreservedly.
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