The debut collection from Dean Browne

A Poetry Book Society Recommendation

Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize in Association with Listowel Writers’ Week

Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize

Winner of the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award

After Party introduces a beguiling, resonant new voice, a raised eyebrow and fidelity to the image – sometimes carried along the tightrope much further than seems possible.

‘Poems that sneak in the side-door then exit through the ceiling’ Caroline Bird

‘Dean Browne is a terrific poet: his language is agile and fresh, his ideas surprising, and the reader feels invigorated, renewed – and lucky to have met such poems’ Nick Laird