Dedalus Press

In this third collection of his poems, Irish poet Joseph Woods again returns to the theme of travel, at once deepening and expanding the concerns of his earlier work, while he also explores the...

Author: Eleanor HookerPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: 8-Oct-21Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1910251909ISBN-13: 9781910251904

Paddy Bushe's latest collection of poems opens with a stirring suite on music and art, seeing them not as rarefied experiences but as fundamental and nourishing encounters for both their makers and...

'On Water' is Irish poet and fiction writer John O'Donnell's third collection of poems and explores what are very much the universal themes of exile, love, sex and death. Alive to the present and the...

Once Was A Boy - 9781915629135Author: DorganPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: Nov 14, 2023Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1915629136ISBN-13: 9781915629135

Given the distance which separates the two countries, it is remarkable the interest contemporary Irish poets take in Japan, both as subject and-responding to its rich literature and culture-as...

Peripheral VisionAuthor: Paddy BushePublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: February 06, 2020Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1910251666ISBN-13: 9781910251669

A selection of contemporary European poetry in translation, edited by John F Deane. Also featuring a selection of contemporary Irish poets, among them Pat Boran, Peter Sirr, Enda Wyley and Gerard...

Romance Options is a major new anthology of contemporary love poems, the result of an open call to Irish and Ireland-based poets to consider the realities of our romantic, emotional and intimate...

Savage AcresAuthor: Keith PaynePublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: Apr 02, 2025Number of Pages: 74 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1915629365ISBN-13: 9781915629364

Subtitled 'Reflections of a Reluctant Loner', Savage Solitude is an unusual and thought-provoking book, taking the reader on a journey through the immediate experience of being alone. Drawing on...

The Dedalus Press series of budget pamphlets presents key works by major voices in world poetry. Constantine Peter Cavafy was born in Alexandria in Egypt in 1963 and died there in 1933, though he...

An anthology of prose and poetry by some of the best-known living Irish writers, in support of the voluntary body Shine, supporting people affected by mental ill health. Contributors include Colm...

Sing Up! is a collection of comic and satirical lyrics that comment on recent changes and developments in Irish society. It is, in the editor's own words "a gather-up of intolerance, irreverence,...

Enda Coyle-Greene's Snow Negatives is an exciting debut from an Irish poet whose work is already well known from literary magazines and journals. In poems that are at once formally alert and alive to...

Author: Leeanne QuinnPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 68 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1910251739ISBN-13: 9781910251737

Author: Patrick CotterPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: March 01, 2021Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1910251844ISBN-13: 9781910251843

Just over a dozen years since her much- praised debut, Katherine Duffy's follow-up, Sorrow's Egg, shows an increased maturity of voice, facing, as it does, the twin subjects of loss and grief and the...

The second collection of poems by poet, novelist and broadcaster John Kelly.Author: John KellyPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: May 02, 2022Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Paul Murray's third and fourth collections of poems, The Absent Fountain (1992) and These Black Stars (2003) are still much sought after and admired: the precision and economy of the language is...

Ten Modern Arab Poets, first published in 1992, is a selection of the best of Irish poet Desmond O'Grady's translations from the Arabic. The poets choen include Abu Nuwas of Iraq, Ibrahim Naji of...

A world of machines, machine management and communication is at the heart of Cork-born Irish poet Billy Ramsell's second collection of poems. From credit card point-of-sale devices to personal music...

Patrick Deeley is an Irish poet with a profound sense of place and of ecological awareness. Born in Loughrea, Co. Galway, in 1953, he grew up on the edge of a wetland meadow, or callows, whose flora...

A love affair with a city in brilliant daylight and chiaroscuro, the poems of Irish poet Patrick Kehoe's second collection The Cask of Moonlight are for the most part set in Barcelona, a city of slow...

In this 11th collection of his poetry, Irish poet Macdara Woods brings his hallmark qualities of energy and alertness to the subject of memory, its revelations, transports and deceptions. The Cotard...

In The Deep Heart's Core some 100 Irish poets accept the invitation to revisit a favourite, key or touchstone poem of their own, and offer a short commentary on same -- as they might at a live event...

In his fourth collection of poems, poet & physicist Iggy McGovern lets art and science intermingle in poems that range from the domestic to the ekphrastic, from the celebratory to the elaboratory...

MARY NOONAN is an Irish poet and academic. She lives in Cork, and works as lecturer in French at University College Cork. Her poems have been published widely in print and online and poems have...

"At the heart of Gerard Smyth's entire oeuvre is an intriguing duality. He is an urban poet who emerged as an artist from the distinctive Dublin modernism of Michael Smith's New Writers' Press, yet...

JACOPONE DA TODI (Jacopo Benedetti) was born, as his familiar name implies, in the Umbrian hilltop town of Todi in the year 1230. After the death of his wife in an horrendous accident, he discovered...