Found in a Context of Destruction

by Tim MacGabhann

Noted novelist and essayist Tim MacGabhann's debut collection demonstrates a rare confidence and coherence. These formally assured and blackly funny poems chart the course of addiction and recovery, contemplating the injuries a body and mind can sustain, and what joys we find in these darker spaces in the shape of friendship, music, and community. The spare, stark poems of love and survival in Found in a Context of Destruction open windows on rarely-seen vistas, bringing us on a delirious but vividly captured journey from Ireland to Mexico.

104 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 5, 2026

Reviews

[Jennifer]

Essential reading. I’ve dog-earred so many pages! This is dark and kind, bringing poetry out of very dire places. He’s innovative with language too, which is a treat. Firm favourite. Banshee Press is killing it. 💪