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Irish poet Catherine Phil MacCarthy's fourth collection of poems, The Invisible Threshold explores from several angles the idea of 'threshold' or the 'liminal', the state of being in transition from...

Originally published in 1999, this reissue of The Last Dreamers: New and Selected Poems draws on P?draig J. Daly's first five collections, both from Dedalus and the Profile Press. "Distinguished work...

The publication of Dublin-born Paul Perry's first collection of poems in 2003 saw him heralded as "a prodigiously gifted poet" by Fred D'Aguiar, for whom each poem "bristles with life and longing,...

First published in April 2005 and now in its second edition, The Latitude of Naples is German-born Irish resident Eva Bourke's third collection of poems with the Dedalus Press. "This is a poetry...

DOMINGO NOTARO (b. 1939, Calabria, Italy) is a leading Italian painter and sculptor whose work has been exhibited not just all over Italy but also in such far-flung places as Buenos Aires, New York,...

Following his widely acclaimed prose memoir The Invisible Prison (2009), and his New and Selected Poems (2005, reissued 2007), popular Irish poet Pat Boran's first full-length collection of poems in...

The fifth collection of poems by one of the senior figures in contemporary Irish poetryAuthor: L. BardwellPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2005Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding:...

Catherine Ann Cullen's interests in folklore, myth and popular song are everywhere evident in the poems she has published over the past decade. Collected as A Bone in My Throat (2007) and Strange...

Best known as one of Ireland's most popular cartoonists, Tom Mathews has for many years contributed poems to a number of small magazines and journals. The Owl and the Pussycat is his much anticipated...

MATTHEW GEDEN was born in England and in 1990 moved to Kinsale where he runs a bookshop in the town. He co-founded the SoundEye International Poetry Festival which takes place in Cork. His own poems...

How do writers write? What do they do when they're stuck for ideas? Or how do they take those still vague ideas to the next level, maybe even all the way to publication? Whether you belong to a...

Irish poet Eleanor Hooker's debut collection of poems is a rich, distinctive and sometimes unsettling book, full of warm presences, but also open to an otherness, at best glimpsed or half-heard but...

The Slipping ForecastAuthor: Ross ThompsonPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: Apr 02, 2025Number of Pages: 92 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1915629349ISBN-13: 9781915629340

Author: MeehanPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: Nov 13, 2023Number of Pages: 164 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1915629152ISBN-13: 9781915629159

Philosophically and geographically wide-ranging (as one might expect of a diplomat poet), this second collection by Philip McDonagh features poems inspired by his experiences in places as far afield...

The Sundays of EternityAuthor: Gerard SmythPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: February 04, 2020Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1910251712ISBN-13:...

In Lorca's Tamarit poems, the dominant theme is that of life/love and death. He returns to Andalusian material, specifically to his native city of Granada, for images and atmosphere, among other...

Among the most admired of Desmond O'Grady's many poetry collections, The Wandering Celt was first published in 2001 and has been unavailable for some years. A work of enormous ambition and...

Leland Bardwell is one of the senior figures in Irish writing, widely admired for the energy, wit and daring of her poems, plays, short stories and novels. Following the reissue in 2012 of her short...

Prize-winning Irish poet Pat Boran's seventh collection of poems begins with a number of museum artifacts and sets off on a journey through memory, loss and renewal.Author: Pat BoranPublisher:...

PADDY BUSHE was born in Dublin in 1948 and now lives in Waterville, Co. Kerry. A prize-winning poet both in Irish and in English, his collections include Poems With Amergin (1989), Teanga (1990),...

Author: Doireann Ni GhriofaPublisher: Dedalus PressPublication Date: April 07, 2021Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1910251860ISBN-13: 9781910251867

A man walks out a country lane, a Monteverdi lament in his head; a father guards his sleeping daughter; a translator grapples with the poetry of Brecht; a mother wishes for her child, Little heart /...

Tolstoy in Love is the first full-length collection of poems by Tyrone-born Ray Givans. Daring and risk-taking, the first section begins in the voice of Anna Akhmatova, with what John Wakeman...

"Denis Devlin's poetry was formed in the Modernist mould, self-aware and kaleidoscopic. An aesthetics of fragmentation encouraged diversity which remained diversity despite the necessary process of...

A restless, probing imagination and a music lover's ear are among the elements that drive the poems in Cosgrove's much anticipated debut collection. Her wide range of interests are matched only by...

"[T]he trained eye of the natural scientist and the impassioned soul of a poet fuse to create a poetic universe that is nothing short of miraculous. At home in the liminal spaces where revelations...

Irish poet Theo Dorgan's first two collections, The Ordinary House of Love and Rosa Mundi, went out of print quickly; they were never republished despite widespread and ongoing demand. This book...

The National Museum of Ireland / Ard-Mh?saem na h?ireann is a repository of memory - but also a living place that enriches and challenges the present, that preserves for the future a witness to who...

Grace Wells' When God Has Been Called Away to Greater Things is that rare thing, a debut collection of poems that is at once firmly earthed in the real yet intimately connected to the mythic. In...