"An invaluable new dimension on the Irish Studies front"
— The Irish Times
OPENING THE INTIMATE ROOM OF POETRY TO EVERYONE - free to download poetry mp3 files by many of the poets on the Dedalus list
Dedalus is delighted to announce the additon of an Audio Room on our website in which we present readings of their work by a large and growing number of Dedalus authors. The readings may be listened to online or downloaded without charge to the computer or the audio player of your choice. In many cases, excerpts of readings recorded at the launch of new titles are included, making the Dedalus Audio Room an invaluable resource for both general readers and students of Irish writing.
NOTE Audio files are in a combination of mp3 and, in a small few cases, RealAudio formats and are intended for personal listening only. For permission to broadcast or otherwise redistribute any of these recordings, please first contact the Dedalus Press.
AUDIO ROOM LISTING (BY SURNAME)
POEMS
Fergus ALLEN
Reads 2 poems from Gas Light & Coke
A Bad Debt (mp3)
After Pneumonia (mp3)
Michael AUGUSTIN
Reads at the launch of Mickle Makes Muckle, Dublin (Sept. 07)
(mp3, 8 MB)
Pat BORAN
Waving (mp3)
Machines (mp3)
Still Life with Carrots (mp3)
A Man Is Only as Good (mp3)
Interview: Pat Boran talks about and reads from his New and Selected Poems on Rattlebag, RTÉ Radio 1, 11 April 2005. (RealPlayer file)
Enda COYLE-GREENE
Reads 2 poems from her debut collection, Snow Negatives.
(mp3, 5 MB)
Pádraig J DALY
reads 2 poems from The Last Dreamers: New and Selected Poems
Sorrow (mp3)
Remembering Paddy (mp3)
15 min excerpt from the reading to launch Clinging to the Myth (Feb 2007), introduced by Pat Boran (mp3, 7 MB)
Theo DORGAN
Reads Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Easter 1991 (MP3, 1.9 MB)
Francis HARVEY
reads a selection of poems at the Dublin launch of Collected Poems, April 2007 (mp3, 8.5 mb) here
Thomas KINSELLA
Thomas Kinsella reads and introduces the poem 'Marcus Aurelius' from Marginal Economy, Peppercanister No. 24, recorded in Belmullet, Co. Mayo, June 2006, following the presentation to him of the Ted McNulty Award
Marcus Aurelius (8.4 MB, mp3)
James J McAULEY
reads from New & Selected Poems
Poem in Place of a Lecture (mp3)
Iggy McGOVERN
Iggy McGovern reads from The King of Suburbia
The King of Suburbia (mp3)
The Bony (mp3)
Interviewed and reading on Rattlebag, RTÉ Radio 1
01 December 2005 (requires RealAudio Player)
Amber's Epiphany an uncollected, Christmas poem (mp3)
Interview on The Book Show, ABC Radio, Australia (mp3, 3.5 MB)
Gerry MURPHY
Gerry Murphy reads 5 short poems from End of Part One: New and Selected Poems (October 2006): 'A Note at the End', 'A Note on the Demise of Communism', 'What?' 'Rush Hour' and 'The Big Issues'
here (2 MB, mp3)
John O'DONNELL
Reads Injury Time, from Icarus Sees His Father Fly (mp3)
Paul PERRY
reads three poems from The Orchid Keeper (mp3)
The Surfers of Portstewart
Wintering
The Seals at Mill Bay, Rathlin
Gabriel ROSENSTOCK
Reads at the launch of Bliain an Bhandé / Year of the Goddess,
01 February / Lá Fhéile Bríde, 2007 here (5MB mp3)
Gerard SMYTH
reads two new poems, recorded in Belmullet, June 2006
Creed Room (mp3)
The Flood (mp3)
Dolores STEWART
Dolores Stewart introduces and reads 2 poems from her 2006 collection Presence of Mind
Aftermath (mp3, 2.3 MB)
Plato's Cave (mp3, 2.3 MB)
Mutsuo TAKAHASHI
Mutsuo Takahashi reads 3 poems (mp3) from
On Two Shores: New and Selected Poems (2006)
with translations read by Frank Sewell
The Process (Japanese); The Process (English)
The Poet's Stick (Japanese); The Poet's Stick (English)
Going to the Well (Japanese); Going to the Well (English)
Macdara WOODS
Reads 2 poems at the launch of Artichoke Wine
The Cormorants (mp3)
Hearts Laid Bare (mp3)
Enda WYLEY
Municipal Gallery Favourite (mp3)
SONGS
Confessions of a Bodhrán Player
Fintan Vallely sings one of the songs collected in Sing Up! Irish Comic Songs and Satires for Every Occasion
The Grisly Murder of Joe Frawley
Tim Lyons sings one of his songs collected in Sing Up! Irish Comic Songs and Satires for Every Occasion
