Dedalus Press

This major bilingual anthology, with English translations by Richard Zenith and Alexis Levitin, introduces the work of 28 Portuguese poets (beginning with Fernando Pessoa and his 'heteronyms'), and...

Gerard Smyth is an Irish poet strongly associated with his native Dublin, much of his previous work focusing on the people and places of that city and their legacy and effect on the poet and his...

Eleanor Hooker's second collection of poems sees her move increasingly beyond the confines of home into a more profound relationship with the elements. Images of house and home besieged by storms...

Affirmation: selected Poems 1986-2006 contains the first major selection of poems in English translation from one of the best-known names in contemporary Greek poetry, translated by Mina Karavanta,...

Mary O'Donoghue was born in 1975 and grew up in Co. Clare. Her first poetry collection Tulle was published in 2001, and her poems have appeared widely in Irish and international periodicals and...

A distinguished art gallery director, and curator of major exhibitions by some of the art world's most celebrated names, Enrique Juncosa is also a much-admired poet in his native Spanish. Bay of...

A true hymn to heaven and earth, Beyond Stillness is a moving, sensitive exploration of our relationship with the damaged natural world, seen up close and often in astonishing, affecting detail...

One of Ireland's best known and most prolific poets, writing predominately in Ireland, Gabriel Rosenstock has published over one hundred books both for adults and younger readers. In this new...

Borrowed Space celebrates twenty-one years of Irish poet Enda Wyley's poems. In his introduction to this selection, James L. Pethica writes: "It offers us both a retrospective - a compressed and...

Clasp is award-winning Irish poet Doireann N? Ghr?ofa's first English-language collection of poems. In three sections entitled 'Clasp', 'Cleave' and 'Clench', N? Ghr?ofa engages in a strikingly...

P?draig J. Daly was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland, and is an Augustinian priest working in Dublin. He has published four previoius collections with Dedalus, including his new and selected...

Coloured Handprints introduces 20 contemporary German-speaking poets, from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, to an English-language readership. Edited by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, and translated from the...

BILLY RAMSELL was born in Cork in 1977 and educated at the North Monastery and UCC. He began writng seriously in 2000 when he moved to Barcelona. In 2005 he was shortlisted for a Hennessy award and...

Leland Bardwell is one of the senior figures of Irish writing: a novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer whose fiction has appeared on bestseller lists abroad and is accorded classic status...

Maurice Scully was born in Dublin in 1952 and spent his childhood between Clare, the Ring Gaeltacht (or Irish-speaking part of Ireland) and Dublin. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, after...

Francis Harvey's poetry has long been firmly earthed in the Donegal landscape that his been his homeland for much of his life. By times delicate and elegiac, by times fiercely empassioned and...

Ger Reidy's first collection of poems, Pictures from a Reservation, appeared in 1998, and received widespread praise for its compelling voice and authentic evocation of the west of Ireland. Just over...

Gerry Murphy was born in Cork in 1952. His poetry collections include A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards (1985, 1992) and four previous collections from Dedalus, Rio de la Plata and All That (1993),...

Gerry Murphy was born in Cork in 1952. His poetry collections include A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards (1985, 1992) and four previous collections from Dedalus, Rio de la Plata and All That (1993),...

"Even So reveals the extent to which Mark Roper's move from the UK to the Kilkenny countryside in 1980 has liberated his imagination and, by allowing him to report on lived, day-to-day experience,...

Light-footed, full of humour and independence of spirit, the poems in Amy Abdullah Barry's debut are prompted by wonder and appreciation, forming a bridge between her upbringing in Penang, Malaysia...

Irish poetry is among the most vibrant language cultures in the world. A decade on from the landmark anthology Watching the River Flow: A Century in Irish Poetry (Poetry Ireland, 1999), Flowing,...

For the Birds is the moving, assured debut collection of poems from Ukrainian-born Victoria Melkovska, an Irish resident for the past 20 years. From reflections on her early life in the former Soviet...

Cl?ona N? R?ord?in presents a bilingual English-French selection of the work of four Irish poets published: Pat Boran, Katherine Duffy, Mary Montague and Gerry Murphy. An ideal companion for students...

In the title poem, the poet advises her granddaughters metaphorically to "swim in the obscure." In this, her second collection, Peggy O'Brien tries to do just that in order to probe the shadows cast...

Comprising eighty-one poems 9-syllable 9-line poems, Paula Meehan's extraordinary new collection explores the subjects of loss, return, memory and the power of art, in which the linked but not...

Irish poet P?draig J. Daly's latest collection of poems is set in a challenging place, "our unGodded world", as one poem calls it, "our infected kingdom", another. It is a place of darkness and...

Theo Dorgan was born in Cork in 1953 and is one of Ireland's best known poets. Theo Dorgan's Greek is a vivid, sensual, technically brilliant new collection which transports the reader through time...

Groundswell: New and Selected Poems draws on all of the previous collections of one of Irish poetry's most distinctive and compelling voices. The selection is introduced by Theo Dorgan. "Patrick...

Gunpowder Valentine is the much anticipated New and Selected Poems from one of Ireland's most distinctive and singular poetic voices, a poet whose work is at once precise and open-ended, true to the...