Dedalus Press: Poetry from Ireland

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

28/10/2025

Cian Ferriter talks to Poetry People host Rachael Hegarty about his debut collection of poems, Blink, available now on the Dedalus Press site and from bookshops.

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Poetry blending grace, illness, strength, and love in new collections from Cian Ferriter and Annemarie Ní Churreáin.

28/10/2025

Amy Abdullah Barry on Dublin One City, Many Stories.
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25/10/2025

ENDA WYLEY TO RECEIVE LAWRENCE O’SHAUGHNESSY AWARD

We’re delighted at the news from New Hibernia Review that Enda Wyley, whose new collection of poems Sudden Light we published just last week, has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry, the prestigious annual award from the University of St. Thomas, MN, now in its 30th year.

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