Jason Kirkey
Massachusetts
Jason Kirkey is graduate student in conservation ecology as well as an author, poet, and the founder of Hiraeth Press. He grew up in the Ipswich River-North Atlantic Coast watershed of Massachusetts. Inspired by the landscapes in which he has lived — the temperate forests and old mountains of New England, the red rocks and high desert of Colorado, Irish hills and sea — his work is permeated with an ecological sensibility. Whether poetry or prose, Jason's words strive toward consonance with the ecosystem. He has written four volumes of poetry, including Estuaries and a nonfiction book, The Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality. Jason is now working on his second nonfiction book. He lives in Massachusetts.
Bibliography
non-fiction
The Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality · 2009
The Riverway: Field Notes for a Contemplative Ecology · forthcoming
poetry
Estuaries · 2011
The Ballad of the Sea-Sweet Moon and Other Poems · 2008
Songs from a Wild Place · 2007
Portraits of Beauty · 2006