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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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Liam Bates @liambatespoet.bsky.social · 2d

Dean Browne (@deanbrowne.bsky.social)

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.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 6d

“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

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Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · 15d

'August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in the afternoon.'
Kafka

Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · 27d

lovely notice for After Party here in The Telegraph!

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Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · 27d

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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Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · Jul 20

Up Tipp!

Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · Jul 7

'this shirt is bananas'

Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · Jul 7

ain't no Houellebecq, girl
ain't no Houellebecq

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · Jul 4

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.

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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · Jun 19

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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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 2

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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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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Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · May 24

Bill Knott

Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · May 19

.... and with Michael Dooley and Jennifer Horgan for a lovely event in the Cork City Library

Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · May 18

an honour and a pleasure to chat with Maurice Riordan at the Cork International Poetry Festival

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Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · May 9

Most are called 'Babe' because growing up to become a pope is a lot of fun

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Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · May 1

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

The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · May 1

We are thrilled to announce the winners of The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2025, with first place going to Kevin Graham for his poem, ‘Aspiration’.

Read more about the winners and judges here: thelondonmagazine.org/news-kevin-g...