The Gallery Press

Publishers of Irish Poetry and Drama

'The poets on the Gallery list are indispensible to the art of poetry as an ongoing endeavour in Ireland: indispensible to the honour in which that art is held at home and to the honour which it earns for us abroad.' — Seamus Heaney

Irish Times Poetry Now Award

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The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 12:30pm Saturday March 24th,  dlr LexIcon, The Studio Free admission The Irish Times Poetry Now Award, is presented annually at the festival to the author of the best collection of poems in English, published by an Irish poet in the previous year. Previous winners of the Award include Paddy […]

October 2017 Poem of the Month

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October’s Poem of the Month  The Gallery Press is delighted to be publishing Conor O’Callaghan’s new collection, Live Streaming, on 19 October. Grace They’re coming to collect the table I’m writing on. They texted a while ago to say they were leaving a suburb four miles south. Midweek, early evening: traffic should be light. I thought of […]

Irish Times Poetry Now Award Shortlist

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Congratulations to Conor O’Callaghan whose collection The Sun King has been shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2014.   Other titles on the shortlist are: Tara Bergin This is Yarrow (Carcanet) Nick Laird Go Giants (Faber & Faber) Sinéad Morrissey Parallex (Carcanet) Billy Ramsell The Architect’s Dream (Dedalus Press)   The Irish Times Poetry Now Award is presented annually to the author […]

Here Comes the Sun King!

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Conor O’Callaghan’s The Sun King reviewed by Maria Johnston ‘A piece of garbage I had around’, John Lennon unceremoniously dubbed his ‘Sun King’, the second song of the ground-breaking medley or ‘song montage’ that closes the Beatles’ final, ‘end of the line’ album Abbey Road (1969). Making innovative use of recording studio technology to orchestrate existing ‘bits […]