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MACDARA WOODS was born in Dublin in 1942 and has published a number of collections with the Dedalus Press including his Selected Poems (1996) and The Nightingale Water and Knowledge in the Blood (2002). His work has been translated widely, into some 12 languages, and has has been set to music and perfomed by artists such as Anuna and Bonita Hill. A member of Aosdána, the Irish Arts Council's affiliation which recognises outstanding contributions to the arts in Ireland, Woods is also one of the founder editors of the long-running literary journal Cyphers, along with poets Pearse Hutchinson, Leland Bardwell, and his wife the poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. His latest collection of poems is The Cotard Dimension (2011).
"This is language raised, like prayer and other holy forms, to be instructive, healing, memorable and accurate. In the performance of these duties, Macdara Woods is among the most trustworthy, his voice among the most engaging, his contribution among the permanent"
—Thomas Lynch
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WOODS, Macdara
The Cotard Dimension
May 2011
ISBN 978 1906614430, 90 pp
Price: €11.50
Free shipping throughout the world
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WOODS, Macdara
Artichoke Wine
29 March 2006
5.5' x 8.5', 120 pp
"An engaging and highly-charged collection by an excellent poet whose voice never drops below the lyrical"
—Western Writers Centre
ISBN 1 901233 50 7
Price: €12.00 Paperback.
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WOODS, Macdara
Knowledge in the Blood : New & Selected Poems
2000. Reissued 2007
ISBN 978 1 904556 64 0
Price: €16.00 Paperback.
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READ
READ
Guitarist Benjamin Dwyer on his recent collaboration with Macdara Woods
In the Ranelagh Gardens
LISTEN
Macdara Woods reads
2 poems from
Artichoke Wine
PUBLICITY
Link to Hi-Res B&W publicity photograph of Macdara Woods
(1.5 M)
Click to download
VISIT
Macdara Woods' homepage
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