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Dean Browne
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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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Delighted for Billy Ramsell and Banshee here, his transporting collection Render deserves all the honours
tseliotprize.bsky.social T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 4d
We’re delighted to announce the T. S. Eliot Prize 2026 Shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten exciting collections that present voices of ‘linguistic disruption, personal reflection’ and ‘humorous lyricism’.
Find out more now!: tseliot.com/prize/news
October 5, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Sopranos channelling Barthes
October 1, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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A magnetic reading by UCC poet-in-residence Dean Browne at the Granary Theatre the other night. Caroline Bird said it best: Dean writes 'poems that sneak in the side-door then exit through the ceiling’...
September 25, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Talk about nominative determinism.
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
September 21, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Just occasionally, you come across a new poem from a young poet that reassures you all is well with the future of poetry.
Dean Browne, from his debut Picador collection ‘After Party’
September 19, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Louis Macneice, who died 63 years ago, in 1963, on the feast day of St Mac Nissi
September 3, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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Wendell Berry
September 1, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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a streetcar named deirdre
August 20, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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some poems in the new Tate etc
August 9, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Terry Funk's story about the Insane Clown Posse, after they used pirated Japanese wrestling footage from Funk's stint in IWA-Japan for their legendary 'Stranglemania' tapes 🤼
And so the Insane Clown Posse came into the house, and Vicki had some chili cooked up. They sat down and ate a bowl of chili apiece and talked to me. They said they were sorry if I was upset over what they had said on that tape, and we buried the hatchet. Then Violent Jay said, "Terry, we want to leave you some money for using that tape of you." I said, "No, no, don't do that!" "Yes, Terry, we're going to leave it under this jar, on this counter here!" I kept telling them not to, but I walked into the next room before them. They followed me in, and told me they had to go. We said our goodbyes, and the Insane Clown Posse drove off in their bus. And I walked back into the other room, to get the money I knew they'd left. I have to tell you, I was excited. I was thinking, "Oh boy, I bet they left me twenty bucks, or maybe even forty," which would have just tickled me pink. I thought I'd have enough to pay for the chili, at least, and so I was really happy at the notion of having twenty bucks. I went in there, lifted up the jar...and there was four thousand dollars there! And so let me tell you people something right now - I love the Insane Clown Posse! The next retirement match I have, they're going to be in the semi-final! They're the greatest band in the world, and I have all their records. Haven't got around to listening to the yet, but I have them here somewhere.
July 29, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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'Do not stand at my grave and weep'...
furryjams.bsky.social James Furey @furryjams.bsky.social · Jul 13
If you need to find me I'll be in Aldi, somewhere between the veg, meat and dairy
July 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Congratulations to Dean Browne, who has just been announced as the winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2026.

Read all about it: ow.ly/eM6150ZgajQ

A huge well done, Dean, from all of us here at Queen's. 🙌
Queen's announces Dean Browne as the winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2026
The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s announces Dean Browne as the winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2026.
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June 24, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Perhaps you'd like to hear the Odyssey read by Batman's robot butler
June 23, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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June 18, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Warmest congratulations to my pal, the incomparable @deanbrowne.bsky.social. His is a collection like no other, and it's sublime to see it reach these magnificent and deserved heights. A book of singular imaginative vision and craft - long may After Party reign.
May 28, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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I don't have infallible judgement, but I chose "After Party" by @deanbrowne.bsky.social as one of my Sunday Times Books of 2025 - and I know how much Dean deserves this prize.
May 28, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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michaeldooley.bsky.social Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · May 28
Warmest congratulations to my pal, the incomparable @deanbrowne.bsky.social. His is a collection like no other, and it's sublime to see it reach these magnificent and deserved heights. A book of singular imaginative vision and craft - long may After Party reign.
booksireland.bsky.social Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · May 28
🌟Congratulations to Dean Browne, the winner of the €20,000 Pigott Poetry Prize 2026! 🌟
@poetryireland.bsky.social #poetrydayireland
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May 28, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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Dreamt a friend of mine had written Pink Floyd's Hey You but the lyrics were a little different in the dream.

Hey you
With shaving cream on your nose
Can you hear me

Etc
May 19, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN
May 19, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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'Jimmy Fear, Chief Executive of Death'. I'm almost certain I misheard the radio over the sound of my cooking but I want to believe
May 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Come join us @cuirtfestival.bsky.social in April!

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Poetry Reading: Dean Browne, Matthew Rice, Kandace Siobhan Walker - Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Galway City
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March 11, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Just really enjoying the world of @deanbrowne.bsky.social ‘s After Party. Confident strokes drawing a very emotionally “true”otherworldliness. #amreading
Cover of poetry book: After party by Dean Browne. Text of a poem called ‘Oink’ by Dean Browne, from After Party.
February 14, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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From @deanbrowne.bsky.social's wonderful debut, "After Party." @picadorbooks.bsky.social

#Irish #Irishpoetry #donegal #gametheory #wizarding
February 10, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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Late 30s. My grandfather Laurence bottom left. My great grandfather John top left. My great great grandfather Laurence next to him
February 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM