About
There’s a great deal to admire in the work of Jamie O’Halloran. Her calm voice seems to reach out from a deeply grounded life into a judicious consideration of the natural world and of our place in that world. It’s a voice which is immediately trustworthy: gentle, balanced, undeceived. A careful voice, in every good sense of that word ‘careful’.
—Mark Roper
​American-Irish poet Jamie O’Halloran was born, raised and has lived along the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts of the United States and is now an Irish citizen living in the Connemara region of County Galway in the West of Ireland.
This suits her well as the natural world provides much of the impetus and imagery for her poems. She has been writing and publishing poems for a long while.
Her poems appear recently in Banshee, Poetry Ireland Review, Southword, 14 Magazine, One Hand Clapping, Channel, Howl, Pinhole Poetry, Hive and Crannóg.
Chapbooks​
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The Visible Woman, Pinhole Poetry, 2024
Corona Connemara & Half a Crown, Southword Editions, 2022
Sweet to the Grit, Inevitable Press, 1998
The Landscape From Behind, V.C. Press, 1997
Woodlands & Waterways Poems from a Reading, Cumberland Press, 1994​​
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Awards & Prizes ​​
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​2025 Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition, First Prize
2025, 2023, 2022, Poems for Patience, Shortlisted
2024 Shelley Memorial Project Competition, Highly Commended
2024 Westival International Poetry Competition, Shortlisted
2023 Poetry Aloud, Juniors recited my poem ‘Overhead, for the first round of competition.
2023, Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry, First Runner Up
2023 Southword Subscribers Competition, First Prize
2023 The Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry, 1st Runner Up
2022 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2022 Artist in Residence, Brigit's Garden, Galway
2021 Cúirt New Writing Prize, 2nd place
2021 Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition
1993 Ann Stanford Prize, Southern California Anthology
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Anthologies​
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What Rough Beast: Anthology of poems on Trumpism (Culture Matters), 2024
Shelley Memorial Project Competition, 2024
Slow Lightning: Astonished Poetry (Slow Lightning Lit), 2023
Romance Options, Dedalus Press, 2022
Poets Meet Politics, Hungry Hill Writing, 2022
Chasing Shadows, Creative Ireland, 2022
Local Wonders, Dedalus Press, 2021
Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets, Tebot Bach, 2007
Mischief, Caprice, & Other Poetic Strategies, Red Wind Books, 2004
So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California Poets, Tebot Bach, 2003
Beyond the Valley of Contemporary Poets 2000, VC Press, 2001
And What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the Century, Ashland Poetry Press, 1999
Beyond the Valley of Contemporary Poets 1997, The Sacred Beverage Press, 1998
Grand Passion: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, Red Wind Books, 1995​
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