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GERARD SMYTH was born in Dublin in 1951. He has been publishing poetry in literary journals in Ireland, Britain and North America since the late 1960s. He is the author of five collections: World Without End (New Writers' Press, 1977); Loss and Gain (Raven Arts Press, 1981); Painting the Pink Roses Black (Dedalus Press, 1986); and Daytime Sleeper (Dedalus, 2002), which also appeared in a Romanian translation in 2003. His latest collection, A New Tenancy, was published in 2004.
'At his best he can set images ringing with life and make them resonant with significance' - Books Ireland
'Daytime Sleeper is a refreshing and invigorating testament to a true poet at work in the world' - Eugene O'Connell, Cork Literary Review
'Gerard Smyth has a painstaking eye for the telling detail... in his hands the impact of simplicity is extraordinary'- Philip Casey
'He may do for Dublin in verse what Joyce did for it in prose' - Michael Hartnett
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SMYTH, Gerard
The Mirror Tent
2007
ISBN 978 1 904556 59 6
5.5" x 8.5", 80 pp
Price: €11.00 Paperback.
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SMYTH, Gerard
A New Tenancy
2004
ISBN 1 904556 28 0
Price: €16.00 Hardcover.
'With this book Smyth's cool poems find purchase again in the machinery of Irish poetry. A New Tenancy ooerates at several levels, personal, historical, geographical, but it all coheres as a perfectly beautiful book, full of wisdom and lyricism, but with the added spice of a rediscovered Dublin voice'
- Thomas McCarthy, The Irish Times
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ISBN 1 904556 27 2
Price: €10.00 Paperback.
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SMYTH, Gerard
Daytime Sleeper
2002
ISBN 1 901233 84 7
Price: €10.00 Paperback.
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READ
3 Poems
- 'Portobello Bridge'
- 'Mid-Century Sunday'
- 'Sunday Morning in Romania'
LISTEN
Two poems, 'The Flood' and 'Creed Room', recorded in Belmullet, June 2006
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