Ruth O’Callaghan has 16 full collections with a further collection scheduled for publication in 2026. She is a Hawthornden Fellow, an international competition adjudicator, interviewer, reviewer, editor, mentor and has compered/read/ helped organise international poetry festivals plus being a workshop leader both in the U.K. and abroad. She has been invited to read in Europe, Asia, and USA* and was awarded a gold medal for poetry at the XXX World Congress of Poets.
 
The Arts Council sponsored her trip to Mongolia to work with women poets. Her poems have been translated into many languages.
 
Since 2008 she has hosted two poetry venues, Lumen Poetry and Camden Poetry, whose ethos is to promote poetry’s social dimension. Both famous and unknown read together, all proceeds support two Shelters for the Homeless – the latter are also encouraged to participate. She endeavours to bring fresh audiences to poetry – especially those who are disadvantaged in some way.
 
*   “On a reading/radio tour in Wisconsin and Illinois, as the only poet, my audiences ranged from approximately one thousand to those on a buffalo farm where the buffalo outnumbered the audience. (One has to be flexible and have a sense of humour to be a poet.)”
 
Poetry Collections:
 
forthcoming, 2026: Threads, Two Rivers Press

 
CELL, Shoestring Press, 2025
(In)Different Wars, Salmon Poetry, 2023
Undisclosed, Shoestring Press, 2023
Where Shadow Falls, Two Rivers Press, 2023 Double Binary, Shoestring Press, 2022
A Rickle of Bones, Shoestring Press, 2020
Unportioned, Salmon Poetry, 2019
Mapping the Light, Shoestring Press, 2018
Wringing Blood, Salmon Poetry, 2018 Vortices, Shoestring Press, 2017
An Unfinished Sufficiency, Salmon Poetry, 2015
The Silence Unheard, Shoestring Press, 2013
Another Morning of Quiet Pleasures, Soaring Penguin Press, 2013
Un Salt in Timp (A Lope of Time), Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2012
Goater’s Alley, Shoestring Press, 2010
A Lope of Time, Shoestring Press, 2009
Where Acid Has Etched, bluechrome, 2007
 
See anthologies, residencies/awards/events poetry pRO (pdf file)