The Kerry Collection (ePub)

The Kerry Collection is a gathering of fiction and poetry by Sam Montana. A ten year sojourn in the Irish outback of Co. Kerry and the Aran Islands have left an indelible mark upon both page and artist.

'The House of the Boatmaker,' rests at the edge of the Irish sea on the Beara Peninsula, a fabled land of seclusion, refuge and renewal where a soul may rest upon the earth with neither fear nor joy, sadness nor regret within a state of being that acknowledges no boundary, save for the thin, shimmer of light that dwells between the heavens, the sea, and all that is to be held close.

Sam Montana delivers a tender vignette of two women. American and Irish. One in search of solitude, the other refuge within a relationship based upon a shared, unspoken grief that marks the beginning of an emotional journey. A poignant story of loss, and of being lost, and a motherless daughter's search for the way home again.

'BlowIn' - Chapbook One

In this premier episode, Sam moves in the shadow of Jake O'Connor, a young man thrust into the last dance of a factory town during the late sixties, a fading blue collar world that nurtures and serves as catalyst to a poetic awakening and relentless trek across America and Europe.

'The Raven Faction'

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove - Juvenal

Kris Shepard is an artist who resides in a world of closely guarded solitude. A young woman with a singular passion derived from the point of a chisel and whose extraordinary abilities of facial recognition threatens all that she holds dear in this tale of love, honor and deception that unfolds from Provincetown to the windswept seclusion of the West of Ireland.