Moya Cannon is an Irish poet. She was born in Co. Donegal and now lives in Dublin. Her work reflects a large range of interests: music, history, migration, archaeology, geology and our long relationship to our earth and seas.
Her seventh collection is Bunting’s Honey, Carcanet Press, 2025, and her Collected Poems was published by Carcanet Press in February, 2021. A recent bilingual selection of poems, No Todo Termina en un Libro, Spanish translations by Jorge Fondebrider, Florencia Fragasso and Julian Massaldi, was published by Ediciones Gog Y Magog, Buenos Aires, May, 2025.
Latest Books
Bunting’s Honey
Published 26th June 2025 | Paperback | 98 pages
This is a book of wonderings and wanderings, from the mountains of the west of Ireland to a church on the Venetian island of Torcello and to Changbai lake in China. The poems bear witness to our primal kinship with the natural world, a source of nourishment, joy and solace, but also to our disastrous, onrushing human conquest of that same earth and seas.
The title poem, ‘Bunting’s Honey’, is a tribute not only to those who composed and played early Irish harp music but also to those who collected the music and who, long after their own deaths, made possible a most remarkable renaissance of that same musical tradition.
No Todo Termina en un Libro
Bilingual selection of poems
“Sospecho que Moya Cannon es un suerte de arqueóloga de las emociones, esa especie de agua subterránea que, como en sus poemas, fluye y anima nuestras vidas.”
Jorge Fondebrider
“Cada poema de la colección contiene un mundo, no solo una porción del mundo. Por eso se constituye como un hogar…..”
Florencia Fragasso
“‘Danos momentos tan completos / que no hay nada detrás ni delante de nosotros.’ Gracias a su ojo y atención, Moya Cannon nos ofrece momentos come este una y otra vez.”
John Berger
Featured Book
Collected Poems
Published 25th February 2021 | Paperback | 256 pages
Collected Poems brings together poems from six previous collections, Oar (1990), The Parchment Boat (1997), Carrying the Songs (2007), Hands (2011), Keats Lives (2015) and Donegal Tarantella (2019), more than three decades’ work, individual poems which compose a memorable, unpredictable sequence of discovery.
‘These wonderful poems lay down not just a landscape and a history, but a music which is all their own, through which the reader can enter a unique dialogue between elegy and celebration.’
Eavan Boland (Carrying the Songs)
Moya Cannon reading "Carrying the Songs"
This video was recorded by the UCD Poetry Archive and forms part of a series of readings by contemporary Irish poets.
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