Released June 30th, 2025 // 108 Pages // 978-1-917617-12-3 // RRP: £13.99
 
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. Navigating the tensions between domesticity and wildness, history and the self, these poems shift fluidly between personal reckoning and collective consciousness, from the intimate disarray of motherhood to the ghosted architectures of Ireland’s institutional past, and the rising tide of the climate crisis. Kinsella’s voice is both tender and unsparing, attuned to the body’s vulnerabilities and the quiet devastations of time. The Ethics of Cats is a fierce and deeply felt collection, as intelligent as it is unrelenting. 
 
PRAISE for Alice Kinsella and The Ethics of Cats:
Here is a writer who matters
— The Irish Times
 
Alice Kinsella's work is glorious,provocative, moving and very beautiful. The Ethics of Cats is an exceptional poetry collection. I loved the intimate worlds and intricate detail inside each poem, the generosity, humour, honesty and truth.
—Salena Godden
 
The Ethics of Cats shows Kinsella at her sharpest yet. These poems are beautiful and original, combining cats, coming of age and catastrophe, with a clear eye and a sharp intelligence.
—Elaine Feeney
 
ABOUT Alice Kinsella:
Alice Kinsella is an Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Artist. The Ethics of Cats is her first full-length poetry collection. She lives in Co. Mayo with her family.