Sep 30, 20233 min read

Golden Hour book release September 2023 - Colms poems translated from English to Spanish

In 2019 I said yes to Al Faro Editiones being the first to publish a selection of my poems, it wasn’t meant to take so long to get to the point of publication, but life had its own plans for us on our life’s journeys. I want to thank Dominic Williams and Inês Lampreia for their many years of nurturing my poetry with a soft editors eye, and Frank Bergsten Britta Thurfjell and Magnus Grehn for their enthusiasm sarcasm and support, but where would my poetry be without a certain three people who often managed to slip between the sheets of these pages muses to my life and inspiration to my fantasy, and finally Alesia Ribalta for her translation and publication of this work.

If you would like a copy of the book

you can just send a message with your address to

colm@ciarnain.com it costs 12€ + postage

here at Litteraturcentrum Kvu

and on Amazon: Sweden - Spain - Germany - UK

there are more links bellow

Colm has put up all the poems as individual posts from the book in both the original language English and the translations by Aleisa Ribalta in Spanish

in English and here in Spanish

Here beside you can listen to the poems from Golden Hour - Hora Doarada being read by Colm in English, you can also download each individual poem if you want :

Some articles about the book.

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Kiernan talks of his poetry as navigating a route to the bare self. His opening poem focuses very directly upon a physical nudity that is merely an illusion of true nakedness. Even in this most personal of spaces there is a lack of intimacy a lack of intimacy that is the source of anguish for the female voice in this poem. There is a constant theme throughout the collection of the poet’s questioning of a personal and societal reality and the poet’s role within the context of the values of a wider community or society.

- Dominic Williams

Colm Kiernan's poetry indicates a simultaneously raw and humanistic gaze, simultaneously romantic and nihilistic, sensual and disillusioned, which cannot be characterized or packaged into a single literary trend. It is rather a quest that reveals itself between hyper-realism and self-reflection, allowing the reader to embark on a journey that becomes their own.

- Inês Lampreia

With these powerful and naked verses that appear behind the veils of an ordinary morning, the poet defines himself and thus, not only chooses a path, but also makes it clear to us how he has chosen to walk. The route is definite but the destination not so. As we read, we ask ourselves, perplexed, where is the journey to?

- Aleisa Ribalta

I will never think the same way about cows again. Colm Kiernan's poetry combines rawness with the beauty of being alive with wit, presence and curious detail. His poetry is a stream of consciousness rollercoaster between the highs of love, joy and absolute darkness.

- Erica Elfström

Colm reading at Festival de Poesía Animal Sospechoso Barcelona 2023

I had the wonderful opertunity to go to Barcelona to meet old friends and to release my book Hora Dorada - Golden Hour published by Al Faro Ediciones and released at Festival de Poesía Animal Sospechoso Barcelona 2023 where Angela Garcia, Jonas Ellerström, Alesia Ribalta, Lasse Söderberg and Magnus Grehn also hung out for a long weekend enjoying the street life and the art of hanging out. Bellow you can see two videos of my readings produced by the festival.