Oisín Breen is an Irish poet, doctoral candidate in narratological complexity at the University of Edinburgh, and financial journalist covering the registered investment advisory space in the US. He is published as a poet and short story writer in 120 journals in 22 countries, including in Agenda, North Dakota Quarterly, Books Ireland, Door is a Jar, Northern Gravy, Quadrant, Decomp, and The Tahoma Literary Review.
Overall, he has over 244 poems, a small number of short stories, and at least 500 articles and essays to his name.
Dublin-born Breen's second collection, the widely reviewed and highly praised second collection, Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín & Other Poems is available through Downingfield Press, here:
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produc...
And here (as well as through most good bookshops): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0645231819
His critically aclaimed debut collection, Flowers, all sorts in blossom, figs, berries, and fruits, forgotten was released Mar. 2020 by Edinburgh’s Hybrid/Dreich Press. (https://hybriddreich.co.uk/product/oisin...)
Breen's third collection, The Kergyma, is slated for release in 2025, through Salmon Poetry.
Primarily a proponent of long-form style-orientated poetry infused with the philosophical, Breen has been published (as a poet) in About Place, La Piccioletta Barca, Books Ireland, North Dakota Quarterly, Northern Gravy, the Seattle Star, Modern Literature, Drunk Monkeys, Dreich, New English Review, Metaworker, Mono, the Orphic Review (né Crow of Minerva), the Madrigal, Black Poppy, Permeable Barrier, Visual Verse, Meniscus Australia, In Parentheses, Kairos, Discretionary Love, Loch Raven Review, The Gyroscope Review, The Saltbush Review, the Banyon Review, Phantom Kangaroo, Griffel, Door is a Jar, Gaia Literary Review, New Note, Cathexis North West, Wingless Dreamer, Yellerzine, ShabdAaweg, Stepaway, Roadrunner Review, Nevermore, The Belfast Review, Free State Review, Ground Up, Inklette, Euphony, Interim, Roi Fainéant, Thieving Magpie, MIROnline, Sibyl, New Critique, Reservoir Road, Decomp, Grub Street, WRFL, New Feathers Anthology, Oxford Middle East Review, Lucent Dreaming, Heartwood, Universe, Fiery Scribe, Zvona i Nari, October Hill, Red Ogre, Poetica, Drawn to the Light, Stratford Quarterly, the Blue Nib, Kamena, Amphora Magazine, the Kleksograph, Riverbed Review, the Unbound Brooklyn Journal, Mortal Mag, Genuine Gold, Postscript, the Ocotillo Review, the Bosphorus Review, Book of Matches, The Tahoma Literary Review, Crowvus, Expanded Field, Revolute, Aji, Griffel, Seventh Quarry, Camas, the Martello, Inverted Syntax, Active Muse, Sunday Mornings at the River, Soundings East, Consilience, New Plains Review, the Elevation Review, Milk House, Pangyrus, Spectra, Rock & Sling, Thimble, the Exacting Clam, Nether, Lotus Eater, Agenda, Crest, Coffin Bell, Punt Volat, Across the Margins, Crowstep, Poetry Wales, Coalition for Digital Narratives, Amphibian, Twenty-Two-Twenty-Eight, and the in anthologies An Áitiúil, Autumn Noir, Penned Poetry for Parkinson's Research, and Spirit of Fire and Dust, as well as several now defunct online magazines from the early 2000s.
He also has work forthcoming in Pinhole Poetry, Quadrant, Abstract, NōD, Galway Review, The Ogham Stone, and The Belfast Review.
Twitter: @Breen
Bluesky: @oisinbreen.bsky.social
Mastodon: @Breen@mastodon.ie
In non-fiction, Breen is published in the Blue Mountain Review, as a social journalist, RIABiz.com as a financial journalist, FXStreet, as a foreign exchange trade reporter, where he was nominated as writer of the year, and SeekingAlpha as a stock analyst.
Selected podcasts include:
An analysis with a light-heart of Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/...
Discussion on writing, and including a performance of 'The Lapwing', here: https://northerngravy.com/podcast-3/
Discussion on writing, philosophy, and a performance of 'The Borderland Furies', here: https://themetaworker.com/2023/03/13/pod...
Poems available to read online include:
What the Fire Talks (Punt Volat): https://puntvolatlit.com/what-the-fire-t...
Two Poems (Coalition): https://coalitionfordigitalnarratives.or...
Three Poems (Across the Margins): https://acrossthemargin.com/three-poems-...
Time moves swiftly even through the leaves of trees (the Seattle Star): https://www.seattlestar.net/2021/04/time...
October (the Seattle Star):
https://www.seattlestar.net/2021/06/octo...
The Path to Wonder Ever Carries Traces of Oblivion (the Bosphorus Review):
https://bosphorusreview.com/the-path-to-...
Cold Stone Does Not Carry Meaning (Visual Verse):
https://visualverse.org/submissions/cold...
The Borderland Furies (Metaworker):
https://www.themetaworker.com/2021/05/03...
Thirst and Vigil (La Piccioletta Barca):
https://www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/t...
Fatherhood and Sunday Afternoon (In Parentheses):
https://inparentheses.art/2021/08/20/fat...
An Auguring of Winter to Come (New English Review):
https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpag...
The Ruins Near Tongue (New English Review):
https://www.newenglishreview.org/Oisin_B...
Cathecism, and Winter (New English Review):
https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpag...
On Property (Mono): https://www.monofiction.org/post/on-prop...
The Ferryman (Zvona i Nari): https://www.zvonainari.hr/single-post/oi...
Reviews include:
Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín:
The Scotsman: https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cultur...
World Literature Today: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/202...
The Washington Independent Review of Books: https://www.washingtonindependentreviewo...
Flowers, All Sorts in Blossom, Figs, Berries and Fruits Forgotten:
The Seattle Star: https://www.seattlestar.net/2021/03/befo...
World Literature Today: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/202...
The Mechanics Institute Review: http://mironline.org/reviewoisinbreen/
Interviews include:
BOMB Magazine: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/0...ín-breen-by-thomas-beeson/
Sybil: https://www.sybiljournal.com/news/2024/2...
The Milk House: https://www.themilkhouse.org/interview-o...
