The latest collection of poetry from acclaimed wordsmith Steve Huenneke.
"This collection isn’t meant to comfort you. It’s meant to shake you out of your seat - to make you feel the absurdity, the tenderness, and the terrible beauty of being human in the age of algorithms and endless war. Because somewhere between the blue sky over Wexford and the smoke over Rafah, between the lifeboats and the lifeless seas, there’s still a thin chance - a whisper of redemption."
- Odhran Somers is the author of the poetry book Finally Finite, his second poetry collection Passion Spent will be published in 2026.
"War Stories, the new collection of poetry by Steve Huenneke is literary alchemy at its most potent. He hauls in and harnesses the rawness, the fury, and injustice of this dystopian world.
Huenneke awakens, questions and provokes us into the reality and absurdity of this current era. His insights have the potential to spark off a volcanic eruption of backlash against tyranny, apathy, ignorance, and cruelty, stripping bare the pretensions, lies, and corruptions.
Huenneke's reflections are those of a man, a poet, and a prophet. He has created an elixir of poetry that can shake the very fabric of perception we have living in these times.
War Stories is a work of divinely inspired compassion for a humanity that is aching for redemption. Huenneke unravels the knots tying humanity in a pulp of bewilderment — and demands truth and respect."
- Anne Ireton is the author of two novels, Kaleidoscopic Times (2023) and its sequel, Bohemian Whirlpools (2025). She has also written two anthologies of poetry and prose.