Dedalus Press - Gerard Smyth

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 six poetry collections: World Without End (New Writers' Press, 1977), Loss and Gain (Raven Arts Press, 1981), Painting the Pink Roses Black (Dedalus, 1986), Daytime Sleeper (Dedalus, 2002), which also appeared in a Romanian translation in 2003, A New Tenancy (2004) and The Mirror Tent (2007). The Fullness of Time : New and Selected Poems is published in April 2010.

'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

SMYTH, Gerard
The Fullness of Time: New and Selected Poems
Introduction by Thomas McCarthy
2010, 220 pp, 5.5” x 8.5”

"His work is distinguished by a deliberate unshowiness, a sense of every experience being tested in a language stripped and primed against any false note."
―Dermot Bolger, Sunday Business Post

ISBN 978 1 906614 26 3
HB €25.00

ISBN 978 1 906614 27 0
PB €16.00

SMYTH, Gerard
The Mirror Tent
2007

"The book gives away enough of its author’s private life and reflections to make the reader ponder from page to page. One is left with the sense of a life of psalms. There is also a bardic ring to it in some of its sections: Smyth, perhaps because he is an accomplished journalist, recharges moments of insight in the movements of collective Irish experiences in the last thirty years. He seems in many instances in these poems the chronicler of Irish fate."
—James Liddy, An Sionnach

ISBN 978 1 904556 59 6
5.5" x 8.5", 80 pp
Price: €11.00 Paperback.

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

***

ISBN 1 904556 27 2
Price: €10.00 Paperback.

SMYTH, Gerard
Daytime Sleeper
2002

ISBN 1 901233 84 7
Price: €10.00 Paperback.