Forty Foot Press
Anne Fitzgerald : Poet. Raised in Sandycove Co. Dublin, Ireland. Educated at Loreto Abbey Dalkey, Trinity College, Dublin (Law), and Queen’s University, Belfast; lived and worked in North America and England.
Edited, produced and designed four anthologies of young adults’ poetry: The Colour of the World (2003); The Compass (2004); Uncharted Voyage (2004); Deep Canyons (2005); founded Loreto Abbey Dalkey Press (2004) and MET Press (2003), both school publishing houses. Anne is listed on Poetry Ireland Directory of Writers and Schools
Anthologised in Stream and Gliding Sun, ed. David Wheatley (Wicklow: Wicklow County Council, 1998), pp. 151-
Poetry collections include, Swimming Lessons (2001), [in 3 sects., ‘Paddling’, ‘Breaststroke and Butterfly’ and ‘Swimming the Channel’]; The Map of Everything (2006), Beyond The Sea (Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare: Salmon Press, 2012) and Vacant Possession (Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare: Salmon Press, 2017); writer in residence at The Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco (2007). Anne lives in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
United States of Mind
written and read by Anne Fitzgerald
Poems from The Map of Everything
1. In The Family 7.45
2. Loreto Abbey Convent
School for Girls 21.30
3. United States of Mind 19.23
Sound Track : Gábhán Mac Cába
Violinist : Una McCabe
Recorded by Turoe Studios 2005
Soldiering On
written and read by Anne Fitzgerald
track length 10:31
Sound Track : Gábhán Mac Cába
Recorded by Turoe Studios 2003
• Manchester Review (issue 17)
• ‘The Translatable Rhythm of Breath’, in Poetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing it, ed. Jessie Lendennie (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Press 2009), pp.36-
• Fiona Becket, review of The Map of Everything, in Stand, 187, 8 (Leeds UP 2008), pp.3-
Still avid for Ovid’s Poetry, 2,000 years on
An anthology inspired by the great Roman poet proves the idea of metamorphosis is as current now as it was in his time
Irish Times Fri, Nov 24, 2017, 06:00
Requiem for the Sold
First broadcast on
RTE Radio 1,
Ray Darcy Show,
April 3rd 2017