First collection from Bradish

Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote that ‘beauty will save the world’, an enigmatic statement which continues to demand fresh interpretation. Daragh Bradish moves his collection through circuits to the premise that such a redemption remains possible. He sets out to find re-enchantment in the ordinariness of life.

Bradish canvasses a broad spectrum of subjects in his first collection of poetry, 'Easter in March'. The poems are drawn from such diverse sources as children’s story books and games, Renaissance paintings, pop songs, the streets of Rome, the Dublin coastline, and landscapes of west Clare. There are three prose books driving the collection forward, The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore; Ordinarily Sacred by Lynda Sexton; and John O’Donohue’s Eternal Echoes. The poet casts his own life story against the philosophy expounded in these works.

Daragh Bradish was born and raised in Terenure, Dublin, and spent his formative years in Bray, Co Wicklow. He studied fine arts and history at Trinity College Dublin. In recent years, he has lived part-time in Liscannor, County Clare. Although his poems have been published widely in Irish, UK, and European journals, Easter in March is his first collection.

'Daragh Bradish is a collector and deft arranger of pictures from a rich and living past, a tender memorialist, a man alert to the significant undercurrents in the world. His poems, rooted in and considerate of memory, are alive to 'the love of Earth/And Heaven', seeking always to retrieve, to consider, to reframe and to bless.' - Paula Meehan