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After Party (Picador, 2025)

Kitchens at Night (Smith|Doorstop, 2022).

https://www.deanbrownepoetry.com
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Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · May 30
delighted to share the cover for my collection After Party, published by Picador in September!
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Take them to the peachtree dance
October 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Dublin and adjacent, I'll be launching After Party in Books Upstairs on Wednesday! With the brilliant Tom Morris
October 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Enjoying @deanbrowne.bsky.social ‘s After Party very much
October 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social (@picadorbooks.bsky.social)

and Eilish Martin (@machapress.bsky.social)

are this year's poets for the John Hewitt Birthday Reading Oct 27th

Tickets selling well. www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/joh...
October 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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The Triangle I should never have written the instruction manual illustrating the 52 distinct tones that can be struck from the triangle, popular now in concert halls from here to Berlin. It's brought me nothing but success. The joke, at first, was exquisite as a devilled egg and the expression on their faces like a sweet pimento. You put the phony in symphony tonight, grinned back the shiny hand-dryer in the gents. Gobs dropped and I went on, describing the point tapped just so for the blackbird's dawn trill, the ripple on a clear lake in Sweden, the squeak of gas that jets from a roasting coal. One tone only audible to toddlers, another only to dogs. Of course I reddened when those rich fools googled me, the search results proved it true. The hits were legion. Not only that, the book had entered its fourth print run and was forthcoming in Russian and Nynorsk. That's when it occurred to me that I was late to deliver the keynote address at the annual summit for triangle-lovers, my lecture on the sweeter octaves of beryllium copper - how to damp it for the rustle like the train of a bridal dress over cobbles. Or pitch it like the mice celebrating the owl's demise by lightning. Or the ting! so crystalline it's called 'frost creeping'. So I jotted some notes, grabbed my jacket, and said taxi.
October 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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“The bogs, rivers, mountains, and shorelines are more than preservers of old myths, bones, and memories. They are energy banks and time sponges, and what is held within them seeks release.”

― Manchán Magan, Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us
October 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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'August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in the afternoon.'
Kafka
September 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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lovely notice for After Party here in The Telegraph!
September 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I'm delighted to be judging this year's Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition! Get your glorious poems in

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Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition – Munster Literature Centre
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September 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Up Tipp!
July 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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ain't no Houellebecq, girl
ain't no Houellebecq
July 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Seems as good a day as any of late to read this poem from Leontia Flynn’s collection, Radio, for the first time.
Forgive me the line breaks go awry. GOVERNMENT SERVANTS after Catullus 28 Government servants with your dinky backpacks, cohorts of bullshit, at its beck and call: friend-of-my-youth, and you, my bosom buddy, how is it going? Have you had your fill of corporate wine and state-subsidised hunger fiddled expenses, claim forms and books cooked to show some profit? Ah, well I remember, back in my time, I also cooked the books for a boss - who then proceeded to bend me down and slowly, and systematically, fuck me over, while being, simultaneously, in turn, yes, thoroughly shafted by his manager ... an even bigger cock. God help us all taught thus to aspire to the 'professional' classes: what blots on humanity. May they rot in hell.
July 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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If you happen to have read the little book, please consider leaving a rating/review here

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In Spring We Turned to Water
In Spring We Turned to Water is the first full-length c…
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June 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Poetry by TLM Poetry Prize 2025 Winners: Kevin Graham, @deanbrowne.bsky.social and Batool Abu Akleen, as well as Michaela Coplen, Mai Serhan, Edward Limb, Serena Alagappan, @victoriaspires.bsky.social, Luke Dunne and @fiddes.bsky.social.

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June 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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delighted to share the cover for my collection After Party, published by Picador in September!
May 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Bill Knott
May 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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an honour and a pleasure to chat with Maurice Riordan at the Cork International Poetry Festival
May 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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delighted that my poem, 'Monk and the Porpoise', was chosen as one of the winners of this prize. Thanks to the judges and hearty congrats to all
May 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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March 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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we're gonna get zero sheets to the wind baby
March 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I felt like I was having a stroke reading this article from
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Gardaí at scene of serious incident in Cork city
It is understood that the scene is currently restricted as officers respond to the incident.
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March 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Joseph Brodsky
March 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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with extra rubbish, yes
March 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Blue Velvet but instead of an ear Jeffrey finds Michael Ginsberg's nipple
February 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM