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Poets John F Deane, Gerard Smyth, Seamus Heaney and Gerald Dawe at event to celebrate Seamus’s 70th birthday.
With artist Seán McSweeney at the launch of The Yellow River, at the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan on January 28th.
Launch of "Loss and Gain" (Raven Arts) in the Project Arts Centre, 1981, with Dermot Bolger, Anthony Cronin and Francis Stuart
With Seamus Heaney at presentation of the Irish Times Poetry Now award to Seamus for his collection District and Circle at Poetry Now festival in Dun Laoghaire in 2007.
With Moya Cannon at Poetry Ireland's launch of "All Through The Night"
With Derek Mahon when he won Irish Times poetry prize
Gerard Smyth with poets Sasha Dugdale and Harry Clifton at the Poetry Now festival.
With son Simon at the launch of The Yellow River, at the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan on January 28th.
Gerard Smyth in St Stephen’s Green in 1968 ( photo Jim Greeley ). A plan by Smyth and Greeley to organise a poetry reading at the Yeats memorial never materialised.
From left to right, with Jim Chapson, David Gardinar & James Liddy in Coolgreany
On stage at Electric Picnic with novelist Carlo Gebler and poet and novelist Dermot Bolger
With Thomas Kinsella at home in Booterstown.
With Francis Harvey at the launch of their books The Mirror Tent and Collected Poems
Signing at Kenny's Bookshop
Portrait by Nick Miller
Paul Simon with his copy of "If Ever You Go", the anthology of Dublin poems and songs edited by Smyth and Pat Boran and published by Dedalus Press
Photograph: Cyril Byrne
With broadcaster, filmmaker and musician Philip King, who launched "The Fullness of Time, New and Selected Poems", at the Cúirt Literary Festival in Galway
With French poet Jacques Reda after both poets read as part of the Franco-Irish festival in Dublin in 2010
Smyth (centre) with fellow poets during a visit to Boris Pasternak's house, at Perdelkino, outside Moscow in June 2011. From left, Joe Woods, Caitriona O'Reilly, Alan Jude Moore and Ronan Kelly, biographer of Thomas Moore, who remains widely popular in Russia
The death mask of Russian poet Boris Pasternak in Pasternak’s residence Perdelkino, outside Moscow, which Smyth visited with other Irish poets in June 2011
A visit to Boris Pasternak's house, at Perdelkino, outside Moscow
With Galway poet Moya Cannon