About Martin Malone

​Martin Malone lives on Inishowen in County Donegal. He has published four poetry collections: The Waiting Hillside (Templar, 2011), Cur (Shoestring, 2015), The Unreturning (Shoestring 2019), Gardenstown (Broken Sleep Books 2024) and a Selected Poems 2005 – 2020: Larksong Static (Hedgehog 2020). He’s also published 5 pamphlets: 17 Landscapes (Bluegate Books), Prodigals (The Black Light Engine Room), Mr. Willett’s  Summertime  (Poetry Salzburg),  Shetland Lyrics (Hedgehog) and Sonnets for my Mother as Lear (Mariscat, 2025).  He is an editor at Poetry Salzburg Review and was, for a number of years, a Poetry Ambassador for the Scottish Poetry Library. His rock band, Innocents Abroad, released their third album, Late Spring, in 2025 and this year released a retrospective, Slow Time: 1984-1988.