ANTHOLOGY COMING IN APRIL FROM SALMON POETRY
INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES A. HAAS, PRESIDENT, TITANIC INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY, INC.
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Join us on our launch of Unsinkable: Poems Inspired by the Titanic in Ireland, April, 2026:
Salmon Poetry Bookshop & Literary Center Titanic Anthology Reading, Ennistymon, Ireland, April 10, 2026, 7:00 PM, The Salmon Bookshop & Literary Centre, 9 Parliament Street, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Cobh Library Titanic Anthology Reading, Cobh, Ireland, April 11, 2026, 2:00-3:30 PM, Arch Building, Casement Square, Cobh, Co. Cork
Cultivating Voices Titanic Anthology Reading, HYBRID (live and on Zoom) from Cobh, Ireland, April 12, 2026, 8 PM Ireland/UK Time (3 PM EST)
O’Bhéal Reading Series in Cork, April 13, 2026, time tba, Hayloft Bar, upstairs at the Long Valley Bar, Winthrop Street, Cork City, Co, Cork
Lahardane, April 15, 2026. We will be at the annual memorial service for those who perished on the Titanic. Caitriona Lane will read her poem ”In the Shadow of Nephrin.” There will be no other readers
Castlebar Library Titanic Anthology Reading, Castlebar, Ireland, April 16, 2026, time tba, John Moore Road, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
Lit Lounge, Titanic Anthology Reading, Cork, April 17, 2026, 8:00-10:00 PM, 8 Cork Rd, Skibbereen, West Cork, Co. Cork
Books Upstairs reading, Dublin, 17 D’Olier Street, April 19, 2026, 2:00 PM in the café, 1st floor.
Limerick Writers Festival, Titanic Anthology Reading, Limerick, April 22, 2026, 7:30-9:00 PM, The People’s Museum of Limerick, 2 Pery Square, Limerick
Praise for this anthology:
What is Titanic? A ship? A colossal disaster? An example of human hubris? A deep-sea habitat? An ephemeral space that held musicians, pets, travelers, dreamers, crew, tableware, pianos, and t-strap shoes? More than all of that. This anthology brings together a diverse array of poets who have found the Titanic and all its ephemera sailing into their work–from Etheridge Knight (“And, yeah brothers / while white America sings about the unsinkable molly brown”) to Elizabeth Bishop (“We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship”) to Anna M. Evans’s abecedarian (“Animals of the Titanic”). The “Notes” alone in this anthology are a map of resonance, of how fascination is an alchemical thing, of how history keeps speaking to us into the present and future.
–Elizabeth Bradfield, author of SOFAR: Poems and Toward Antarctica
The story of the Titanic is one we think we all know – one of hubris, of ‘human conceit brought down by nature’. Its wreckage lies in in darkness, 2100 fathoms deep. And after more than a century, it still exercises a potent pull on the collective imagination. In the remarkable anthology that is Unsinkable, we have poems that explore industrial and maritime history; contemporary reportage and oral accounts; and a world undergoing seismic political and economic change. But these poems transcend their source material to bring the reader into realms of elegy, fairy tale, myth and pure lyricism. Often, the doomed liner is a ghostly presence in the background of deeply moving stories of familial love and loss taking place in the present day.
Unsinkable is truly titanic and full of surprises in its celebration of poetry’s ability to unfold myriad individual stories within the tragic story of the Titanic. More than anything else, we are brought on a thrilling poetic voyage across what Cynthia Atkins calls the ‘vast sea of the psyche’s imaginings’. It is an essential book.
—Liam Carson, author of Belfast Twilight
Unsinkable gathers an international chorus of poets, both emerging and renowned, in a luminous act of remembrance. The poems in this anthology bring back to the surface long-submerged voices and instruments, terror and love. Some portray the Titanic as both relic and metaphor, moving beyond tragedy into symbol. The best poems tread lightly and with grace between past and present, deeply alert to the way catastrophe can, for generations, shape our inner and collective lives. This is a moving, timely anthology, reminding us of the fragility of life, the power of nature and the importance of community.
—Afric McGlinchey, author of À la Belle Etoile – the odyssey of Jeanne Baré
Susana H Case 