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Oisin Patrick Anthony Breen Non-Member Joined 2020

Contemporary Irish Poet, based in Edinburgh, Avant

Fiction Poetry

Multiply award-nominated, contemporary Irish poet and journalist, Oisín Breen is published in short verse form in 142 journals in 24 countries, including Agenda, Acumen, the Irish Times, Books Ireland, Quadrant, Southword, North Dakota Quarterly and The Tahoma Literary Review. Breen has two collections, Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, a Scotsman poetry book-of-the-year, 2023 (Downingfield), and his well received debut, Flowers, All Sorts, in Blossom, Figs, Berries, and Fruits Forgotten (Dreich, 2020). Breen’s third work, the full-length epic, The Kergyma, is due soon (Salmon Poetry). A first collected works, Sord, is due 2028 (Broken Sleep).

Scotsman Book of the Year, 2023, Erbacce Highly Commended, Erbacce Finalist x2, Pushcart-nominated, Multiple Best-of-the-net nominee x4.

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2026

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