POETRY BOOK LAUNCH: “Not to Scale” by Anne Fitzgerald: Anne will be interviewed by Journalist Anne Flaherty.

 Not To Scale

Front Cover Image: Grief (Mother & Baby Home), 2021, Ink & pen drawing, 28 x 30 cm, signed IMOGEN. Reproduced by kind permission of artist Imogen Stuart RHA. 

Photograph of cover image © John Bellew 2024.

Praise for Anne Fitzgerald’s previous Poetry Collection “Vacant Possession’…

‘Is there a poet writing in Ireland who feels so profoundly and knows more surely love’s obsessions, its piercing chronicles, its succour and sorrows than Anne Fitzgerald? The poems in Vacant Possession char the page, leaving their imprint, imperishable, unique.’ –  Frank McGuinness

‘…is a chronicle of love and loss. It is a fierce, yet quietly uttered, indictment of the Irish Catholic Church and State’s inhumane treatment of unmarried mothers; babies taken from them for a pittance and sold for profit.’ – STAND

‘It is this refusal to resolve that is what is most extraordinary about this piercing, intelligent book.’ – Poetry Ireland Review

‘It speaks its testimony precisely, like a naturalist describing life from the field in patient detail and rigorous, demystifying bluntness. Fitzgerald’s field is the past that endures, doesn’t die but echoes, vibrates, and, if ignored, may still undermine like the aftershocks of an earthquake. These are beautiful, aching, defiantly moving poems.’  – The Manhattan Review

About The Poet Anne Fitzgerald

Anne Fitzgerald was raised in Sandycove, County Dublin, Ireland. She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her poetry collections are Swimming Lessons (Wales, Stonebridge, 2001), The Map of Everything (Dublin, Forty Foot Press, 2006), Beyond the Sea (Salmon Poetry, 2012), and Vacant Possession (Co. Clare, Salmon Poetry, 2017).  

In 2006 Anne founded Forty Foot Press http://www.fortyfootpress.ie/ in addition to two School Publishing Houses, Monkstown Educate Together Press (MET Press, 2003) and Loreto Abbey Dalkey Press (LAD Press, 2004). She is a recipient of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Writer-in-Residence bursary at The Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco. She has taught Creative Writing extensively across Ireland, Iceland and the United States of America. Anne lives in Sandycove, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland.  

Anne Fitzgerald can be seen here on ‘ICC Digital’ the ICC’s on- line Channel, paying tribute to the late great Irish Poet Eavan Boland (in 2020).

To find out more about  Anne Fitzgerald  visit Forty Foot Press at http://www.fortyfootpress.ie/anne-fitzgerald.html Also find Anne on  Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FortyFootPress.2006/

About Journalist Anne Flaherty:
Anne is a journalist born in London and growing up in County Clare, Anne has worked for the Irish Press in Dublin and the Irish Times in Belfast as well as reporting from Africa and Asia. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and holds an MA in Anglo-Irish Writing from Queen’s University Belfast and an MA in Children’s Literature from the University of Surrey. Anne is also a member of the Board of Trustees at the. ICC and she is a key member of our Irish Literature Programming team.