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07/17/2025

Looking for your next summer read? Martin Dyar's The Meek was recently recommended by Joseph O'Connor in The Irish Times: "an exceptional second collection from a poet who is also a gifted storyteller. Full of precision, acute observation and reverent encounters with the natural world, it’s a book I’ll come back to many times."

Read the full list here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/07/05/summer-reading-our-critics-recommendations-for-2025/

07/16/2025

"I found myself being interested in the aspects of ourselves that are authentically and passionately connected to animals." Martin Dyar joined Seán Rocks on RTÉ Arena last night to discuss his new collection, The Meek. Listen to the full conversation and hear Martin read three poems, including the title sonnet: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22528073/

06/27/2025

Poem of the week: "Mischief at the Globe" by Gerard Fanning, from his posthumous collection Slip Road, published in Collected Poems (2024). Read the full poem on the WFU Press blog: https://wfupress.wfu.edu/poem-of-the-week/mischief-at-the-globe-by-gerard-fanning

In her selection of this week's poem, WFU Press intern Paulina Hernandez writes, "Gerard Fanning explores themes of mortality, the passage of time, and the ephemeral nature of human life through theatrical and natural imagery. The poem reflects on the vulnerability of the body—symbolized by a freckle—while simultaneously observing the flow of life outside the confines of the theatre. By weaving the world of performance with the steady movement of the Thames, Fanning creates an introspection on the transient nature of existence."

06/24/2025

"I hadn’t come across the late Gerard Fanning’s work before encountering it whole, as it were, in the shape of this Collected Poems. It comes with helpful apparatus—a foreword by Gerald Dawe, an afterword by Colm Tóibín ... All of these angles are helpful, perhaps even essential, to the new reader of his writing." Read the full by Declan Ryan in The Irish Times: http://bit.ly/4lipUfl

Collected Poems | Gerard Fanning is available now on our website: https://wfupress.wfu.edu/books/collected-poems-gerard-fanning/

The book is also available to international customers here: https://gazellebookservices.co.uk/products/9781943667154

06/20/2025

Poem of the week: "The Elsewhere Empire" by Medbh McGuckian, from The Thankless Paths to Freedom (2024). Read the full poem on the WFU Press blog: https://wfupress.wfu.edu/poem-of-the-week/the-elsewhere-empire-by-medbh-mcguckian/

In her selection of this week's poem, WFU Press intern Virginia Noone writes, "Medbh McGuckian explores the emotional and physical spaces that loss often occupies... When a loved one is lost, a portion of us feels lost within ourselves—or unconsciously placed elsewhere. This poem articulates this experience by weaving together fragments of environments and distant memories."

06/18/2025

"Medbh McGuckian has a gift of construction so rare I find myself seduced by her sentences long before I’m seduced by the poems. Seduction by the parts is the prelude to seduction by the whole." Read William Logan's review of The Thankless Paths to Freedom in the latest issue of The New Criterion: https://newcriterion.com/article/the-violets-bear-them-away/

06/06/2025

Thanks to everyone who attended last night’s launch for The Meek by Martin Dyar and Tickle by Eithne Hand. If you missed the reading, you can still find some signed copies at Hodges Figgis!

Stay tuned for future events.

06/03/2025

Meet Martin Dyar! Martin will read from his newest collection, The Meek, this Thursday at Hodges Figgis in Dublin, 6 pm.

Originally from Swinford in County Mayo, Martin Dyar is the author of the Pigott Prize-shortlisted poetry collection Maiden Names (Arlen House, 2013) and The Meek (WFU Press, 2025). He has written a play, Tom Loves a Lord, about the Irish poet Thomas Moore; and, with the composer Ryan Molloy, a poetry song cycle (a suite for soprano, harp, and flute), titled Buaine na Gaoithe, which had an Irish national tour in 2018. He is also the editor of the anthology Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing (Poetry Ireland, 2022). A Vital Signs poetry and music tour, which visited care homes and mental health facilities across Ireland, was produced by the Festival in a Van company in 2023.

The winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, the Strokestown International Poetry Award, and the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Literature Bursary Award, Dyar has held writing fellowships at the University of Iowa, the Washington Ireland Program, and at the University of Limerick. He teaches in the field of Medical Humanities in the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin.

📷: Ger Holland

05/30/2025

Poem of the week: "The Shannon Reader" by Martin Dyar, from The Meek (2025). Read the full poem on the WFU Press blog: https://wfupress.wfu.edu/poem-of-the-week/the-shannon-reader-by-martin-dyar/

In her selection of this week's poem, WFU Press intern Melina Traiforos writes, "Creative genius is often characterized by 'eureka!' moments of inspiration, but in 'The Shannon Reader,' Martin Dyar explores the ritualistic side of the poetic process. His structure is repetitive—never straying from two-line stanzas of about equal length—just like the author in the poem’s sacred writing ritual. Her labor is not immediately fruitful, but with time and patience, it 'sweetened and deepened' with ripeness."

05/29/2025

Come celebrate the Dublin launch of The Meek by Martin Dyar and Tickle by Eithne Hand at Hodges Figgis on Thursday, June 5th, at 6 pm! Speakers will include Gerard Stembridge and Jane Clarke.

05/09/2025

Poem of the week: “Christmas Eve 1950” by Thomas Kinsella. Read it in The Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2022/12/24/christmas-eve-1950-by-thomas-kinsella/

Where Love and Imagination Colour the Dark, our new book of essays on Thomas Kinsella, is named after lines from this early uncollected poem, originally written in the 1950s. Kinsella returned to this poem in the last year of his life, and it was eventually published in Last Poems (Carcanet, 2023).

05/07/2025

Take a look through the table of contents for our new book of essays on Thomas Kinsella, published this month to celebrate what would have been his 97th birthday: https://bit.ly/4m4Z5MZ

Edited by Adrienne Leavy, this collection features twelve essays by celebrated poets and academics alike, offering a balance of high-quality criticism and more personal perspectives, at once scholarly and accessible.

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