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ANTHOLOGY SUMMER SALE
In something of a tradition at Dedalus Press, we’re again offering a short sale on some of our most popular anthologies – an ideal opportunity to get an overview of what’s happening in new Irish writing, and to catch up on some summer reading.
Our anthology summer sale for 2026 focuses on three of our most popular anthologies:
Romance Options: Love Poems for Today
Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets
Shine On: Supporting People Affected by Mental Ill Health
As well as an impressive gathering of poets, the latter also includes short fiction by Claire Keegan, Christine Dwyer-Hickey and Evelyn Conlon, among others. (Click on links for details of the individual books. NB: Offer applies in Ireland/N Ireland only)
RECENT DEDALUS PRESS TITLES
Price range: €12.50 through €20.00
Enda Wyley receives 2026 O’Shaughnessy Award
We’re delighted at the news from New Hibernia Review that Enda Wyley, whose new collection of poems Sudden Light we
Three New titles, October 2025
A terrific turnout last evening (13 October 2025) at the ever-hospitable Club na Múinteoirí/Teachers’ Club for the Dublin launch of
Paula Meehan wins Pigott Poetry Prize 2024
Paula Meehan has won the 2024 Pigott Poetry Prize for her latest collection of poems, The Solace of Artemis, published
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
FEATURED ANTHOLOGY
IF EVER YOU GO
A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song
One of our most popular titles, this best-selling 400-page anthology of Dublin poems and songs is the ideal guide to the city’s famous streets, broad and narrow.
“[A] map of the city’s imagination ” — Evening Herald
If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song is a major (400-page) verse anthology from Dedalus Press in which editors Pat Boran and Gerard Smyth present a unique invitation to explore, street by street, one of the world’s most famous literary cities through the poems and songs it has inspired down the ages.
A virtual tour of the city and environs, If Ever You Go takes the reader on a journey through Dublin city streets, broad and narrow, featuring Dublin poems and songs both familiar and new, historical and contemporary, by writers whose work adds up to an intimate and revealing portrait of a place and its people. Contributors include poets already synonymous with the city — Swift, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Clarke and Kavanagh among them — as well as a host of others, including Kinsella, Heaney, Boland, Bolger and Meehan, who have made some part of it their own.
Street singers and balladeers rub shoulders with haiku and performance poets in an anthology that has its heart set on the very streets we live and work and play on. Groundbreaking in its reach, celebratory in its outlook, If Ever You Go is a record of the connections and epiphanies, the missed chances and last buses that knit all of the streets outside our doors into a map of a city where poetry truly matters.
One of the most outward-looking poetry presses in Ireland and the UK
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