The Dog Kubla Dreams My Life; Anne Kennedy (Salmon Poetry)

Anne Kennedy, poet, writer, photographer and broadcaster, came from Orcas Island, off the coast of Washington state, to live in Galway, Ireland in 1977. Her first book Buck Mountain Poems, published by Salmon in 1989, is based on her Orcas experiences.

The Dog Kubla Dreams My Life, also from Salmon, was published in 1994. A keen documentor of history, in 1993 she contributed an oral history project to the Duke Ellington archive in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Anne's poetry collection Laurel Canyon will be published by Salmon in 1999 as part of special event celebrating her life and work during the Cuirt International Literature Festival in Galway, Ireland. Anne Kennedy died on 29th September 1998.