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Many thanks to Adrienne Leavy and Reading Ireland Magazine for this lovely review of “Sweeney as a Girl”. The new issue of Reading Ireland is available soon at readingireland.net @dedaluspress @knighthallagent @TheTLS

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Milena Williamson reads @ Femina Culpa, Poetry Collective, for International Women’s Day 2026, at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, Sunday 8 March @ 3pm #internationalwomensday @feminaculpa @irishculturalcentre @milenaeve @milenaevening

Congratulations to the four poets chosen for this year's Dedalus Press Mentoring Programme. Eoin Cahill, Aine Rose Connell, Eoin Kelly and Maeve McKenna will meet in one-on-one online sessions with prize-winning poet David Nash to discuss and prepare their work for publication.

Very pleased to share the cover of ‘Estuary’, Philip McDonagh’s forthcoming collection (Dedalus Press, May 2026) #ArtsCouncilSupported @artscouncil_ie #Irishpoets #irishpoetry

Join us for the launch of The Turn for Ithaca by Gerard Smyth and Uncertain Passage by Paddy Bushe - with music from special guest, Ellen Potts. Teachers' Club / Club na Múinteoirí, Dublin 1, Tue 24 Feb, 2026 @ 7pm. #ArtsCouncilSupported @artscouncil_ie @CMuinteoiri

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A reading to celebrate the launch of The Turn for Ithaca by Gerard Smyth and Uncertain Passage by Paddy Bushe -- with music from special guest, Ellen Potts. Teachers' Club / Club na Múinteoirí, Dublin 1, Feb 24, 2026 @ 7pm. #ArtsCouncilSupported @artscouncil_ie @CMuinteoiri

Love, A Story by Pat Boran. Published by Orange Crate Books, and available now from Dedalus Press (link in the comments)

One for your diaries, Sunday 22 Feb at Books Upstairs. @endawyley @BooksUpstairs

As the month comes to an end, in a brief gap in the clouds ('that little tent of blue / which prisoners call the sky', as Oscar put it), here's 'January Violet Blue' by Ross Thompson from last year's The Slipping Forecast. @brokensounds #irishpoetry

ÉIGSE NA BRÍDEOIGE From 30 Jan to 01 Feb, this year's Eigse na Brídeoige gathering in Uíbh Ráthach / Iveragh, Co. Kerry, celebrates the work of poet Paddy Bushe. Paddy's new book, Uncertain Passage, will be launched and, indeed, is now available from the Dedalus Press website.

Uncertain Passage by Paddy Bushe will be launched at the Kerry Festival

from 'This is Sunday', a poem from Among These Winters by Mary O'Donoghue (Dedalus Press, 2007). Poetry Matters: Spread the Word

In winter fire is beautiful beautiful like music it lights the cave — The opening lines of 'Fire And Snow And Carnevale by the late Macdara Woods. Poetry Matters: Spread the Word (Photo: Mikhail Nilov / Pexels)

Last Call! Today is the last day to get in your submissions for the 2026 Dedalus Press Mentoring Programme. Full details on the Poetry Matters blog at the Dedalus Press website. Spread the Word!

@petercullinan74 And, of course, sometimes one mission is wrapped in the other gesture

@dedaluspress A good poem is like a warm hug a great poem is the ability to deal with Metaphysical Existentialism

One day left for submissions for the 2026 Dedalus Press Mentorship Programme for new and emerging poets. See full details on the Dedalus Press blog.