We’re continuing our 2026/27 pamphlet season with Irish poet Cal O’Reilly’s debut pamphlet Boyish. Please note this book is currently under pre-order. Buy now and we’ll send out books from the 5th October.

Cal O’Reilly is a poet from Wexford, currently studying in Belfast. His poems have been published by Dedalus Press, Banshee, Magma, Fruitslice, catflap, fourteen poems and others. He was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2025.

See what advance readers have said about Boyish below:

Boyish, in its humble qualifier, is a pamphlet that pays attention to the gentle, inevitable ways we become something. These poems are assured, dextrous and delightfully various, and, most of all, they are perforated with an infectious tenacity that will remind you of “some / reserve you didn’t know you had”. Cal O’Reilly is the real deal.

Mícheál McCann

Cal O’Reilly has a distinct and astonishing poetic voice. In Boyish, his poems speak of longing, of family, of friendship. Everything O’Reilly writes is imbued with a deep understanding of the landscape, the body, and his literary history. You’re going to love this pamphlet. Truly. 

William Keohane

Boyish is acutely perceptive, proudly of its time and place, often hilarious, and deeply moving. These poems locate transmasculinity in inherited poetic genres –– the bucolic, the ekphrastic, the lyric –– and will transform any reader who encounters and experiences them. A necessary Irish poetic coming-of-age, one of the most impressive and exciting of its kind since Heaney’s Death of a Naturalist. 

Zara Meadows

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