Dedalus Press

Hedge School is Irish poet Pat Boran's 8th collection of poems, finding inspiration and consolation in the local and near-at-hand, in the examples of our neighbours (human and creaturely), in the...

Gerard Fanning is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Irish poetry, "an enigmatic surveyor with an appetite for the exotic cultivar", as one reviewer has called him, a maker of taut...

Hymn to the Reckless, the debut collection of poems by American-born Erin Fornoff, traces an arc from youthful adventures in the Appalachian mountains to a confrontation with life's complexities, not...

First major collection of poems by a poet who has already won most of the poetry prizes available in Ireland. Poems that are well-wrought, extraordinarily achieved, and moving. John O'Donnell has...

If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song is a unique invitation to explore, street by street, one of the world's most famous literary capitals through the poems and songs it has inspired...

News that the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature had been awarded to the Swedish poet Tomas Transtr?mer was greeted with widespread approval by poets and poetry readers the world over. The author of...

This is a reissue of Italian poet Paolo Ruffilli's long poem La gioia e il lutto, in a dual-language edition, Italian and English, with a translation by Irish poet and Augustinian priest P?draig J...

A reissue of Knowledge in the Blood: New and Selected Poems by Irish poet Macdara Woods, first published by the Dedalus Press in 2000Author: Macdara WoodsPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: Mar...

Editors Eva Bourke and Borb?la Farag? present a timely and important anthology of poems by sixty-six poets, from all over the world, who have made their homes in Ireland and who contribute to,...

Editors Eva Bourke and Borb?la Farag? present a timely and important anthology of poems by sixty-six poets, from all over the world, who have made their homes in Ireland and who contribute to,...

In Lani O'Hanlon's debut collection of poems, dance is, variously, a way for her young mother "to pay the milk bill, the bread bill", a practical method for friends to come together, and "a homage to...

Let the Hare Sit / Lig don nGiorria Suí is a significant event in Irish poetry publishing - the first extended selection of poems by Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin in a dual-language format. A summary of a...

Edoardo Sanguineti (1930 - 2010) was born in Genoa where he was for many years Professor of Italian Literature. His many awards and distinctions include the prestigious Premio Campiello for lifetime...

Poems in Irish with English translations by the author --front coverAuthor: Doireann N? Ghr?ofaPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2018Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Liffey Swim is the debut collection of poems from Dubliner Jessica Traynor, in which family portraits combine with myth and history to create a strikingly assured and engaging suite of poems...

Author: Pat BoranPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: Nov 17, 2021Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1910251887ISBN-13: 9781910251881

Irish poet Enda Coyle-Greene's second collection of poems begins with a question about what, apart from laughing, we should be doing 'on this exquisite earth', and ends with the supposition that it...

DEDALUS PRESS is one of the longest-established and most energetic small presses in Ireland, and "one of the most outward-looking" in Ireland and the UK, according to UNESCO.org. Supplementing our...

Witty and wise, playful and philosophical, the poems and other short writings of German poet Michael Augustin are instantly recognisable and not easily forgotten. In his most substantial...

Between the birth of the poet's daughter and the deaths of his parents, the poems in Monsoon Diary attempt to make sense of the world, from a mid-life flight from home en famille to new perspectives...

Best known as one of the leading Irish poets of her generation, Paula Meehan is also an accomplished and much-admired playwright, and her stage work has been performed by, among others, Team Theatre...

Music From The Big Tent is Macdara Woods' first volume of new poems since Collected Poems (2012) From the opening poem in which a bird falls dead at the feet of the strolling poet and his son, to the...

From 'Three Borgesean Fragments' to 'A Random History of the Desmond Rebellion', in this sixth collection of his poems Cork-born Gerry Murphy proves himself to be one of the most inquisitive and...

Commencing in Norwich Cathedral where "organ-pipes, sunstruck by the last rays / Through the high cathedral windows, beamed / Beyond sin or sanctity", the poems in Paddy Bushe's new collection...

Author: Polina CosgravePublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1910251798ISBN-13: 9781910251799

Mysteries of the Home gathers into a single volume a selection of poems from Paula Meehan's two seminal mid-career collections, The Man who was Marked by Winter (1991) and Pillow Talk (1994), both of...

James J. McAuley (1936-2021) was born in Dublin, where he worked as an ESB clerk, then as a journalist. He was a freelance arts reviewer for Hibernia, The Kilkenny Magazine, The Belfast Newsletter...

Irish poet Theo Dorgan's new collection of poems takes its title from a sequence of elegies, Nine for the Nine Bright Shiners. Yet though the book is unflinching as it faces the deaths of friends and...

No Man's Land is the highly assured debut collection of poems by Chile-based Irish poet David Nash, an exploration and a reclamation of a place at once familiar and strange - the rural landscape of...

Tom Mathews has long been admired for his trademark wit and humour, for the combination of irreverence and formal inventiveness that has long since made him one of Ireland's most celebrated...