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Cyphers was founded in 1975 to publish Irish and international poetry, criticism and, later, fiction. Three of the editors had been waiting for the return of the fourth, Pearse Hutchinson, from Leeds University where he had been Gregory Fellow for three years. Before he left, all four had been concerned in running a weekly poetry reading in a pub, Sinnotts of South King Street. Exhaustion, the financial crisis of the 1970s with the consequent rise in the price of drink, and severe competition from the noisy cash register in the pub, had put an end to that venture… More »
May 2nd 2010
Cyphers No. 69 was launched on Sunday 2nd May, at the Strokestown International Poetry Festival. Visitors to the Festival crowded the drawing-room of Strokestown House for what the Festival Director Merrily Harpur kindly described as a ‘treat’, and sipped Prosecco and nibbled shortbread. Macdara Woods read four poems, two from the new issue, and the issue was declared launched.
