Some Poems of Roger Casement

Originally published by the Talbot Press, Dublin, in 1918 after his execution by the British Government for his involvement in the 1916 Rising, Roger Casement's poetry has long been a collector's item. To coincide with Pride 2026, New Island will publish a new edition of SOME POEMS OF ROGER CASEMENT, with a newly commissioned introduction by the award-winning poet, memoirist, novelist and literary critic, Sean Hewitt.

In his day, Roger Casement was a man who appeared to contain many contradictions: decorated British diplomat, Irish Protestant and martyred Irish nationalist. He was a humanitarian, essayist and sometime poet, a public gentleman and a private lover.

Today, more than one hundred years after his death, he rises again as a queer Irish icon of significant historical and social importance and way ahead of his time.