Gyroscope Review is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Poem Renaissance, a review of previously published poems looking for new life and new views. Every day through May 20th, a new poem to fall in love with all over again.
Memories of a Morning Wake
by Oisín Breen
First published in Soundings East
Irish poet and journalist Oisín Breen has been published in 135 journals in 24 countries, including Agenda, Acumen, Books Ireland, Quadrant, Southword, North Dakota Quarterly, and The Tahoma Literary Review. Breen has two collections, Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, a Scotsman poetry book-of-the-year, 2023 (Downingfield), and his well-received debut, Flowers, All Sorts, in Blossom, Figs, Berries, and Fruits Forgotten (Dreich, 2020). Breen’s third collection, The Kergyma, is due out September 2025 (Salmon Poetry).
Don’t forget to read the Spring 2025 Issue, available now, online and in print
Previous Renaissance Poets
April Poets
- Jonathan Yungkans
- Ruth Mota
- Elizabeth Gauffreau
- Sarah Carleton
- Cal Freeman
- Lynn D. Gilbert
- Alison Stone
- Tess Lecuyer
- Adrianna Gordey
- Carol Barrett
- Marjorie Maddox
- Karen Neuberg
- John Peter Beck
- Gail Braune Comorat
- David Colodney
- Robert Wexelblatt
- Susan Kress
- Sharon Pretti
- Mona Anderson
- Alexis Rhone Fancher
- Suzanne Edison
- Mary Padgen Michna
- M. Benjamin Thorne
- Bethany Tap
- Chrissy Stegman
- jane putnam perry
- Andy Macera
- Laurie Rosen
- Zeke Shomler
- Jennifer Randall Hotz
May Poets