Simon James Brady is an Irish poet and writer from County Cavan, now based in Dublin. <img src="https://bear-images.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/sim...
I have published a new poetry pamphlet on the publications page , and it's available free as a PDF: City of Dreamers and Woodlice . These are ecopoems from the last decade or so, gathered together for the first time. Here is the title poem: Renaming Dublin I would rename this city away from its human name. Instead I would place it back into the island landscape from which it emerges. No longer…
An excerpt from Saying You: An Introduction to Martin Buber by Simon James Brady. The twofold movement Note on language: Buber wrote Mensch — the human being, the species — and his English translators rendered it "man". The convention was unremarkable then and is not now. However, I have left the quotations as they stand, and my own prose follows them. The alternative was a text that switched…
Some poets I like :) Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967) Irish poet from County Monaghan, he wrote about rural Irish life with an unsentimental, sometimes bitter eye, rejecting the romanticized "Celtic Twilight" version of the countryside. He moved to Dublin in the 1930s and worked as a journalist and critic while writing his major poems. Highlights The Great Hunger (1942) — long poem on the bleakness of…
I'm delighted to share that my first poetry collection, Winterkeen: Poems 1990–2026 , is now available in paperback. This book gathers poems written over more than three decades. Winterkeen is out now in paperback, available on Amazon .