Kieran Beville’s The Longitude of Love – A Bold Exploration of Masculine Love in Contemporary Irish Poetry Releasing 1st September 2025
In a literary world increasingly focused on expanding emotional narratives, Kieran Beville’s forthcoming poetry collection, The Longitude of Love, marks a bold and timely contribution in Irish poetry. Launching on 1st September 2025, this evocative poetry collection dares to centre masculine love, not as a stoic ideal, but as a lived, tender, and often conflicted male experience.
Beville, an acclaimed Irish poet and seasoned performer, offers a powerful poetic map of intimacy, memory, and emotional longing. His masculine voice doesn’t posture; it opens. In poems like Thirteen Steps, When Love Dies, and the titular The Longitude of Love, we encounter men who ache, remember, desire, and regret. These are portraits of love not through grand declarations, but through everyday rituals-a long-handled spoon, the echo of laughter at a seaside carnival, a timeworn note in a cigar box.
At a moment when mainstream publishing often hesitates to spotlight male emotional depth through a lens of hetrosexuality, The Longitude of Love feels avant-garde-not in its form, but in its courage. It invites readers to reconsider what masculine expression can look like when stripped of performance and infused with lyrical honesty. Beville’s gift lies in balancing emotional precision with elegant, accessible language. The collection continues his legacy of richly human and honest poetry, with a new focus that is as resonant as it is rare.
The Longitude of Love is not just a collection; it’s a quiet revolution in Irish poetry on how we read, write, and feel love from a man’s perspective. Kieran Beville’s poetry has appeared in Cyphers, The Galway Review, New Isles Press and The Phare (2nd prize, 2021), and he’s a familiar performer at international venues like Paris Lit Up and Oxford Poetry Circle.
Christoph Thackaberry
Publisher