Dedalus Press: Poetry from Ireland

15/12/2025

REVIEW OF BRINK BY CIAN FERRITER

“If Cian Ferriter’s Brink had a theme tune it would surely be the haunting slow air Port Na bPúcai… It is from [the] liminal space between life and death that Ferriter’s strongest poems emerge.” — Martina Evans, The Irish Times

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12/12/2025

MENTORING OPPORTUNITY FOR NEW AND EMERGING POETS

Dedalus Press is pleased to announce David Nash as the Mentor for our 2026 Mentoring Programme for new and emerging poets. The free mentorship, which will be offered to selected poets, includes three one-on-one online mentoring sessions with David, as well as publication in the annual Dedalus Press 'Introductions' series.

Applications will be accepted from 01 January to 16 January 2026.

For full details, see the blog post on the Dedalus Press website, link in the comments below.

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05/12/2025

Delighted to have no less than three recent Dedalus Press collections (Catherine Ann Cullen's Storm Damage, Keith Payne's Savage Acres and Patrick Cotter's Quality Control at the Miracle Factory) reviewed on the latest episode of the ever-engaging Books for Breakfast podcast.

With thanks to Enda Wyley and Peter Sirr for the ongoing and enthusiastic support for their fellow poets and writers.

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This morning we welcome poet and critic Ciarán O’Rourke to our breakfast table here in Dublin 8. Ciarán has published two collections of poems with Irish Pages Press, The Buried Breath in 2018  and Phantom Gang in 2022, and he also runs ...

04/12/2025

21/11/2025

An extended interview with GERRY MURPHY is among the attractions of the latest Southword Poetry Podcast from our indefatigable friends at the Munster Literature Centre.

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The Southword Poetry Podcast is produced by the Munster Literature Centre. Each episode, a guest poet talks in depth about their latest work and shares a few of their poems. We also hear a poem from a recent issue of the literary journal Southword...

21/11/2025

A lovely appreciation of Enda Wyley’s Sudden Light by Gabriel Fitzmaurice in The Irish Catholic.

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19/11/2025

An extract from a poem by the late Maurice Craig, architectural historian, author and poet, offering a glimpse of Dublin's Merrion Square at this time of the year.

The poem is to be found in If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song, our best-selling 400-page anthology of Dublin-based verse, some copies of which have just come to light in storage. Link in the first comment below.

19/11/2025

A small top-up of hardback copies of Brink by Cian Ferriter now in stock. A lovely gift for, well, any significant gift-giving occasion ahead ;)

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14/11/2025

Cian Ferriter reading at the launch of Brink, his debut collection of poems, at the Royal Irish Academy last night, to a capacity and enthusiastic crowd.

Second photo: the wonderful Karan Casey who travelled up from Cork to mark the occasion.

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Photos: Pat Boran/Dedalus Press

08/11/2025

The title poem of Enda Wyley’s new collection Sudden Light is the poem of the week in today’s Irish Times.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/11/08/poem-of-the-week-sudden-light/

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A new work by Enda Wyley

30/10/2025

SMALL NUMBER OF HARDBACK COPIES IN STOCK
Just to let customers know that we've today received a small top-up (likely the last of the year) of hardback copies of Enda Wyley's Sudden Light and Catherine Ann Cullen's Storm Damage, two collections that might make an ideal, ahem, seasonal gift for someone.

See the links in the comments.

29/10/2025

Enda Wyley on the genesis of her latest book of poems, Sudden Light, published last week by Dedalus Press.

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Maybe these new poems consider memory to be a type of picture taking or making, the poet’s role to remember