Bernadette Gallagher is a poet from Ireland. Her debut poetry collection, The Risen Tree, was published by Revival Press in 2024 and was first reviewed by poet and editor Orla Fay in Books Ireland Magazine.
Her work has been published in Crannóg, Agenda, The Stinging Fly, The North, Stony Thursday, The Frogmore Papers, Dreich, Southword 41, New Isles Press Issue 2, Irish Examiner, Boyne Berries, ROPES, Stanzas, in the US peace journal DoveTales, Cork Words 3, Tabula Rasa, In the Cinnamon Corners, Ó Bhéal Five Words, In Dappled Shade and in various online journals including: HeadStuff.org, Picaroon Poetry, Poethead, The Incubator, Live Encounters, Backstory, Other Terrain, Shot Glass Journal, The Galway Review, Pendemic, The Poetry Shed, Issue #1 of Bealtaine, Issue 4 Drawn to the Light Press, Agenda and One Poem/Porridge.
A selection of her work has been recorded by the University College Dublin Poetry Archive and her poem 'Coming Home' has been added to the Words Lightly Spoken podcast #115. She has been invited to read her work in Ireland, UK, US, and at the Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi, India.
An essay by Bernadette on the poet Dorothea Herbert (1767-1829) is published in Irish Women Poets Rediscovered: Readings in Poetry from 18th - 20th Century edited by Maria Johnston and Conor Linnie; Publisher: Cork University Press, 2021.
