Forty Foot Press

Anne Fitzgerald

Anne Fitzgerald is a POET. Raised in Sandycove, Co. Dublin, Ireland. She was educated at Loreto Abbey Dalkey, Trinity College, Dublin (Law); and Queen’s University, Belfast (MA in Creative Writing).

Not to Scale (2024) is Anne’s fifth collection which was preceded by 

Vacant Possession (2017), Beyond the Sea (2012), 

The Map of Everything (2006) and Swimming Lessons (2001).

In 2006 Anne founded Forty Foot Press in addition to two School Publishing Houses, Monkstown Educate Together Press (MET Press, 2003) and Loreto Abbey Dalkey Press (LAD Press, 2004). She is widely anthologised and has edited, produced and designed four anthologies of young adults’ poetry.

She served on the board of The Abbey Theatre's literary department and as literary editor of Bray Arts for over a decade.

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 Dún Laoghaire, County 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

From Painters & Poets

Artist

Thomas Delohery

Poet

Anne Fitzgerald

Music

Gavin McCabe

Patrica Killeen reviews Not to Scale | Irish Central | April 2025

Máighréad Medbh reviews Not to Scale | Poetry Ireland Review | Issue 145

Richard Hayes reviews Vacant Possession - Poetry Ireland Review | Issue 129

Stella Pye reviews Vacant Possession - Stand 224, 17(4) December 2019 - February 2020

John North reviews Beyond the Sea | Manchester Review |Issue 17 | October 2013

Fiona Becket reviews The Map of Everything | Volume 187 (8) (3)

‘The Translatable Rhythm of Breath’, in Poetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing it, ed. Jessie Lendennie (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Press  2009), pp.36-41,

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