Shuibhne, was published by Slow Dancer Press in 1985. In a review for Reality Studios, Maggie O'Sullivan noted it "places him right in the dynamic of English poetry, right in there up to his head, in the real and vital bloodstream of Blake, Shelley, Clare, and Bunting." Although MacSweeney published very little for the rest of the decade, he continued to work on a long poem titled No Mercy, which he was unable to complete to his satisfaction. A recording of him reading the poem in 1988 is available online. 1990s After years of relative silence, MacSweeney re-emerged in 1993 with Hellhound Memos and selected poems in Tempers of Hazard, joining Thomas A. Clark and Chris Torrance. After the Paladin Poetry Series was incorporated into HarperCollins, the list was pulped. His struggles with alcoholism became more acute, leading to frequent hospitalisation and medical treatment. In 1995, Equipage published Pearl, collecting poems set in the Sparty Lea of MacSweeney's youth, where he taught a mute girl to read and write. This was followed by The Book of Demons, which was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. He won a Paul Hamlyn award in 1997. S. J. Litherland, MacSweeney's partner for much of the 1990s, has written extensively about her life with him in the north-east. In the last nine months of his life he acted as mentor and editor to the West Cumbrian poet Emma McGordon, and relaunched the Blacksuede Boot Press to publish her first pamphlet collection The Hangman & the Stars, just two weeks before his death. MacSweeney died from alcohol-related ill health on 9 May 2000 at his home in Denton Burn, Newcastle. His papers and library were donated posthumously to the Special Collections Library at Newcastle University. Posthumous publications At the time of his death, MacSweeney was working on a new Selected Poems, which was published in 2003 by Bloodaxe as Wolf tongue: Selected Poems, 1965-2000. The following year his "collaboration" with Guillaume Apollinaire, Horses in Boiling Blood, was issued by Equipage. In 2013, Paul Batchelor edited a selection of critical essays, Reading Barry MacSweeney. In 2018, Shearsman Books brought out Desire Lines: Unselected Poems, 1966–2000, which collects the material left out of the earlier volume alongside previously unpublished sequences. Literary works Poetry The Boy from the Green Cabaret Tells of his Mother (Hutchinson, 1968) The Last Bud (Blacksuede Boot, 1969) Joint Effort (Blacksuede Boot, 1970) [with Pete