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Dedalus Press is one of Ireland’s leading poetry publishers, publishing the best in new poetry from Ireland and the world since 1985. Dedalus Press is a not-for-profit publisher, and poetry for us is one of life’s essentials. So every time you purchase a Dedalus Press book, you help to support both new poetry and living poets. (As well as Dedalus Press titles, we also distribute Orange Crate Books, editor Pat Boran’s independent publications, and occasional works by others.) To keep up with the latest in poetry from Ireland and international poetry in translation, open calls for submissions, etc., sign up to our Mailing List and follow us on Facebook. To subscribe to a year’s new publications at a discounted rate, see HERE. In these difficult times for so many, we’re putting our faith in the most intimate of art forms. Now more than ever, Poetry Matters: Spread the Word.
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Two Poems by Ross Thompson
Two new poems by Ross Thompson, introduced by the poet IN OCTOBER OF 2019, a few months before the world temporarily fell apart, my family
Ráth Éisc / Shoaling Fish – Writing Poetry in Irish
Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin is an Irish-language poet whose Rogha Dánta / Selected Poems entitled Lig don nGiorria Suí / Let the Hare Sit, with English
Shurouk Hammoud: Two Poems in Translation
In an occasional series of new poems from around the world in English translation, POETRY MATTERS is pleased to bring you two poems from Syrian
Grasshopper Warbler by Mark Roper
Poet Mark Roper ventures out along Waterford’s Anne River, hoping for a sighting, or hearing, of the grasshopper warbler A GRASSHOPPER WARBLER is a small,
FEATURED ANTHOLOGY
THE BOOK OF LIFE
poems to tide you over
The Book of Life: Poems to Tide You Over is a major new anthology of poetry, in an attractive highly portable format like our best-selling The Word Ark: A Pocket Book of Animal Poems, and charting the journey of life from birth to death in poems drawn from some 40 years of publications from one of Ireland’s most respected poetry imprints.
Edited by Grace Wells the anthology includes poems by Leland Bardwell, Pat Boran, Paddy Bushe, Catherine Ann Cullen, Patrick Deeley, Katherine Duffy, Erin Fornoff, Francis Harvey, Ann Joyce, John Kelly, Paula Meehan, Gerry Murphy, Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Mary Noonan, Paul Perry, Mark Roper, Gerard Smyth, Mutsuo Takahashi, Ross Thompson, Grace Wells, Joseph Woods, Enda Wyley and many more.
November 2023 sees the publication and launch of four new titles, by Theo Dorgan, Paula Meehan, David Nash and Lani O’Hanlon.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Once Was a Boy by Theo Dorgan and The Solace of Artemis will be launched in Dublin at Club na Múinteoirí, Dublin 1, on Monday 13 November.
Landscape of the Body by Lani O’Hanlon will be launched in Dungarvan on Thursday 16 November.
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