Dedalus Press

This article is about the Irish publishing company. For the larger British publishing company, see Dedalus Books.

Dedalus Press is one of the major publishers of contemporary poetry in Ireland (with more than 150 titles currently in print).

Founded in 1985 by poet and fiction writer John F Deane, it is now run by poet and editor Pat Boran and manager Raffaela Tranchino. At present the press publishes approximately 8 new book-length publications each year, concentrating on contemporary poetry from Ireland but also regularly issuing anthologies and individual volumes by European writers in translation (often in bilingual formats).

Poets on the Dedalus list include Paula Meehan, Macdara Woods, Francis Harvey, Theo Dorgan, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Gerry Murphy, Paddy Bushe, Jessica Traynor and Eva Bourke among others. Dedalus also represents Thomas Kinsella's Peppercanister series of pamphlets, Iggy McGovern's occasional Quaternion Press and Pat Boran's own imprint, Orange Crate Books.

The Dedalus Press website is at https://www.dedaluspress.com/, and the press regularly posts details of new titles, calls for submissions, etc on Facebook.