AudioRoom: New Writing from Ireland

Dedalus poets Joseph Woods and Macdara Woods read at the launch of their respective new books at the Dublin Writers Museum in May 2011. Joseph Woods reads from Ocean Letters; Macdara Woods from The Cotard Dimension, with a brief introduction on the evening by Pat Boran.

Dedalus poets Eva Bourke, Gerard Fanning and Katherine Duffy read at the launch of their respective new books at the Irish Writers' Centre in April 2011. Bourke reads from Piano, Fanning from Hombre: New and Selected Poems, and Duffy from Sorrow's Egg.

The Ireland-based American poet, who recently celebrated his 70th birthday, reads at the launch of Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2009), recorded in Dublin's Unitarian Church, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 in November 2009.

At the recent launch of Voices at the World's Edge: Irish Poets on Skellig Michael, which took place in the National Library of Ireland, and with the support of the Office of Pubic Works, poet and editor Paddy Bushe spoke about the project and then introduced a specially composed piece of music by fiddler Maire Breathnach, short readings by three of the poets, and after which Dr Martin Mansergh, TD, Minister of State at the Department of Finance, with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works, offered a fascinating overview of the site's 1400 year history and of his own connections with it since his first visit there in the 1970s.

Pat Boran introduces a reading by Mayo-born poet Ger Reidy whose second collection of poems, Drifting Under the Moon was published in May 2010 by the Dedalus Press.

American poet Peggy O'Brien, who lived in Ireland for two decades, reads at the launch of her second collection of poems, Frog Spotting (Dedalus Press, 2009). Recorded in The Irish Writers' Centre, May 2009.

Mary Montague reads at the launch in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal of her 2008 collection of poems, Tribe, a book in which, according to poet Eva Bourke, "the trained eye of the natural scientist and the impassioned soul of a poet fuse to create a poetic universe that is nothing short of miraculous".

Born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Pádraig J Daly is a poet and an Augustinian priest. Recorded on May 31, 2010, he reads here at the Irish Writers' Centre at the launch of his latest collection, Afterlife (Dedalus Press).

Pat Boran presents Dublin-born poet Gerard Smyth in a reading from The Fullness of Time: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2010), recorded at the launch of the book in Dublin's Damer Hall, 04 May 2010.

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London-born poet Grace Wells, long since resident in Ireland, reads at the launch of her debut collection of poems, When God Has Been Called Away to Greater Things (Dedalus Press, 2010). Recorded 04 May 2010. Introduced by Pat Boran.

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