Collected Poems

Macdara Woods is among the best known names in contemporary Irish poetry, with his work translated into more than a dozen languages. To mark his 70th year, Dedalus issues Collected Poems, a generous overview of his many collections from his 1970 debut to The Cotard Dimension (2011), alongside a number of new and previously uncollected poems. Politically engaged, powerfully lyrical and formally adventurous, Macdara Woods' poems expand the range of contemporary Irish poetry and make him, in t...