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POETRY:Selected Poems, by Richard Tillinghast, Dedalus Press, 201pp, €14.99

THE PUBLICATION of Richard Tillinghast’s Selected Poemsconfirms the status of Dedalus Press as one of the most outward-looking publishers operating in Ireland. Other presses, such as Salmon and Wild Honey, and the New Writers Press before them, have done their bit in recent years to internationalise the Irish poetry scene by introducing non-Irish writers to local audiences. Over the past decade or so, however, Dedalus has done more than any other press to bring poets from that larger field of literary production to the attention of Irish readers, in anthologies such as A Night in the Nabokov Hotel: 20 Poets from Contemporary Russiaand Poetry Europe/Europoésie, and in the publication of individual collections by Michael Augustin, Elisabeth Borchers, Inger Christensen and many others.