GERALD DAWE

Criticism   

Catching the Light: Views and Interviews

Salmon Press 2008

My Mother-City

Lagan Press 2007/ Paperback 2008

The Proper Word: Ireland, Poetry, Politics

Collected Essays

edited by Nicholas Allen

Creighton University Press 2007

An Sionnach: Special Issue on Gerald Dawe

edited by David Gardiner 2007

Stray Dogs and Dark Horses : Selected Essays

On Irish writing and criticism

Abbey Press 2000

The Rest is History: a critical memoir

Abbey Press 1998

Against Piety: essays on Irish poetry

Lagan Press 1995

False Faces: poetry, politics and place

Lagan Press 1993

A Real Life Elsewhere

Lagan Press 1993 

How's the poetry going? Literary politics & Ireland today

Lagan Press 1991        

AS EDITOR/CO-EDITOR/TRANSLATOR

High Pop: Stewart Parker's Irish Times column with Maria Johnston

Lagan Press 2008

Dramatis Personae: Stewart Parker's Literary Writings with Maria Johnston and Clare Wallace

Literaria Pragensis 2008

The Night Fountain Selected Early Poems By Salvatore Quasimodo with Marco Sonzogni 

Arc Publications 2008

The Writer Fellow : an anthology

with Terence Brown

School of English TCD 2004

The Ogham Stone; an anthology of contemporary Ireland

with Michael Mulreany

Institute of Public Administration 2001

Krino: the Review, an anthology of Irish writing 1986-1996

with Jonathan Williams

Gill & Macmillan 1996

Ruined Pages: selected poems of Padraic Fiacc  with Aodan Mac Poilin

Blackstaff Press 1994/ 2005

Yeats: the poems, a new selection

Anna Livia Press 1993

The New Younger Irish Poets

Blackstaff Press 1991

The Poet's Place: essays on Ulster literature and Society with John Wilson Foster

Institute of Irish Studies 1991

Across a Roaring Hill: the Protestant imagination in modern Ireland with Edna Longley

Blackstaff Press 1985

The Younger Irish Poets

Blackstaff Press 1982                  

Gerald Dawe with critic Patricia Craig and playwright Anne Devlin  at the launch of  his memoir My Mother City in the Lyric Theatre Belfast 2007

The Proper Word: Ireland , Poetry, Politics

Collected Criticism

by Gerald Dawe

'The Proper Word is a wonderful and perceptive collection. It's stunningly good
and beautifully produced. Its range, depth, authority and insight re-affirms
all my prejudices as a long-time Dawe enthusiast and I'm hoping that The Proper
Word will help bring this richness to a wider audience and contribute to an
ongoing and necessary debate about the culture, history and politics of
Northern Ireland. All books are important, but this publication has a
significance beyond the everyday. May its Amazon listing reflect its value as a
Baedeker to so much about life and the Arts!'
                          

                       - Mark Adair (BBC Northern Ireland )

‘I read The Proper Word with admiration and respect - an unfakeable concern, a Clark Kent vision/inspection of the (con) fusion of word and world. It is fine and faithful to standards, to the extra-otherness of poetry; and wonderfully alert to and analytical of Ireland as she has been conducted/conducting herself for the past 30 or 40 years.’

                                      - Seamus Heaney

‘One of the wonderful things about Gerald Dawe’s work, both as a poet and as a critic is that there’s a sense in everything he writes of a kind of precision, care and attention to detail which manages to be both extraordinarily honest, and extraordinarily precise in its relation to whatever object he’s writing about – whether he’s evoking it as a poet or whether he’s describing it as a critic. But at the same time, there’s that sense of honest engagement continually balanced by a broader perspective and sense of existing outside of sometimes what is the very fetid atmosphere of Irish literary and cultural debate. There’s no special pleading, there’s no sense of the setting out of either a broad or a narrow political agenda; what you find continually is that quality of engagement which is the same quality you find in the poet. It’s the quality of openness to the world.’

                                       -Fintan O'Toole