Alice Kinsella's books include Milk: on motherhood and madness (Picador, 2023), Wake of the Whale (Mayo Books, 2024), and The Ethics of Cats (Broken Sleep, 2025). She edited Empty House: poetry and prose on the climate crisis (Doire, 2021). She curates the Irish Writers Centre Climate Writing Sessions, runs All Weather Words creative workshops and retreats, and is the literary editor at Mayo Books Press.
Alice is an Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Artist and lives in Co. Mayo.
The Ethics of Cats
Alice Kinsella’s The Ethics of Cats is an incisive, unflinching interrogation of memory, survival, and inheritance, written with the lyricism and wry clarity that defines her work.
Wake of the Whale
It is a little-known fact that from 1908–1922, two Norwegian-owned whaling stations operated in County Mayo, not far from the area that would be at the heart of the Corrib gas controversy a century later.
Milk
When poet Alice Kinsella becomes a mother, she finds herself utterly lost. As she searches for answers to the question of her new identity, she considers the mothers and writers who came before her.