We are working away in spite of the pandemic crisis. Cyphers 89 will appear shortly, edited by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin with assistance from Natasha Cuddington and Léan Ní Chuilleanáin. Contributors and subscribers will receive copies by post, and we will be there when the bookshops reopen. Thanks to Ainín Ní Bhroin our administrator who is […]

Macdara Woods died in Dublin a little before midnight on the 15th of June 2018.  He was an active editor of Cyphers from 1975 until his

The editors of Cyphers are sad to announce the death of our beloved Leland Bardwell, poet playwright and novelist.  She died at 94, but

Cyphers No. 81 was launched at the Strokestown International Poetry Festival in May 2016. A special section of poetry from New Zealand features poems by Robert Sullivan, Diana Bridge, Jenny Bornholdt, Greg O’Brien and several others.  The selection was curated by the Irish poet Nell Regan.

At the Ranelagh Arts Centre in Dublin, we launched a CD of 14 poets who have contributed over the years, some old some young.  The recorded voices of Leland Bardwell and Pearse Hutchinson were heard, the sound of friends from America, India and Germany echoed in Ranelagh, and Ciaran O’Driscoll read his hilarious poem about […]

VOICES FROM IRELAND – CYPHERS celebrates the appearance of the 80th issue of Ireland’s international literary journal, launched in November. 

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Cyphers 77 is in the shops now, with poems from all over the hemispheres. Also Seamus Heaney interviewed by Hans-Christian Oeser and Gabriel Rosenstock Fiction by Peter Arnds, Len Jenkinson Michael Augustin, Baltic Sightings Natasha Cuddington reviews Nicole Brossard