The Kerry Collection

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'
Two women. American and Irish. One seeks solitude, the other refuge. The scent of heather, turf fires, sea wrack. A cloak of silence, eternal longing 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.