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””’Cyphers””’ is a [[literary magazine]] publishing poetry and criticism from Ireland and abroad. It was established in 1975 by [[Leland Bardwell]] |
””’Cyphers””’ is a [[literary magazine]] publishing poetry and criticism from Ireland and abroad. It was established in 1975 by [[Leland Bardwell]], [[Pearse Hutchinson]], [[Eiléan Nà Chuilleanáin]], and [[Macdara Woods]].<ref name=leadingliterarylight>{{cite news |first1=Martin |last1=Doyle |first2=Cathy |last2=Dillon |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/leland-bardwell-a-leading-light-of-irish-literary-scene-dies-aged-94-1.2703114 |title=Leland Bardwell, a leading light of Irish literary scene, dies aged 94 |work=[[The Irish Times]] |date=28 June 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117163115/http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/leland-bardwell-a-leading-light-of-irish-literary-scene-dies-aged-94-1.2703114 |archivedate=17 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/leland-bardwell-poet-and-founding-editor-of-literary-magazine-cyphers-1.2707338 |title=Leland Bardwell: Poet and founding editor of literary magazine ‘Cyphers’ |work=[[The Irish Times]] |date=2 July 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623171635/https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/leland-bardwell-poet-and-founding-editor-of-literary-magazine-cyphers-1.2707338 |archivedate=23 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cyphers.ie/2016/07/leland-bardwell/ |title=Leland Bardwell |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302094838/http://www.cyphers.ie/2016/07/leland-bardwell/ |archivedate=2 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Gerard |last=Smyth |authorlink=Gerard Smyth |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/noted-irish-poet-macdara-woods-dies-at-age-76-1.3533716 |title=Noted Irish poet Macdara Woods dies at age 76: Work of almost five decades adds up to a life-long unitary project of great coherence |work=[[The Irish Times]] |date=17 June 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604224702/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/noted-irish-poet-macdara-woods-dies-at-age-76-1.3533716 |archivedate=4 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=woods1942-2018>{{cite news |url=https://www.cyphers.ie/2018/09/macdara-woods-1942-2018/#more-241 |title=Macdara Woods 1942-2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604225158/https://www.cyphers.ie/2018/09/macdara-woods-1942-2018/ |archivedate=4 June 2019}}</ref> Of the four, all but Nà Chuilleanáin are deceased. Bardwell retired in 2012; Woods continued working until the final weeks of his life — even reading submissions while in his hospital bed.<ref name=woods1942-2018/><ref name=about/> |
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The [[Arts Council (Ireland)|Irish Arts Council]] has funded ”Cyphers” entirely since its third issue (it provided half the required funding for the first two issues; six [[Irish pound|pound]]s of the remainder came from the widow of [[Patrick Kavanagh]]).<ref name=about>{{cite web |url=https://www.cyphers.ie/about/ |title=About |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003161203/http://www.cyphers.ie/about/ |archivedate=3 October 2011}}</ref> |
The [[Arts Council (Ireland)|Irish Arts Council]] has funded ”Cyphers” entirely since its third issue (it provided half the required funding for the first two issues; six [[Irish pound|pound]]s of the remainder came from the widow of [[Patrick Kavanagh]]).<ref name=about>{{cite web |url=https://www.cyphers.ie/about/ |title=About |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003161203/http://www.cyphers.ie/about/ |archivedate=3 October 2011}}</ref> |
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Irish literary magazine
Cyphers is a literary magazine publishing poetry and criticism from Ireland and abroad. It was established in 1975 by Leland Bardwell, Pearse Hutchinson, Eiléan Nà Chuilleanáin, and Macdara Woods.[1][2][3][4][5] Of the four, all but Nà Chuilleanáin are deceased. Bardwell retired in 2012; Woods continued working until the final weeks of his life — even reading submissions while in his hospital bed.[5][6]
The Irish Arts Council has funded Cyphers entirely since its third issue (it provided half the required funding for the first two issues; six pounds of the remainder came from the widow of Patrick Kavanagh).[6]
Cyphers started publishing following The Dublin Magazine‘s closure and as The Lace Curtain‘s penultimate issue was published. Titles considered by the editors for their new publication included Landrail, The Blackbird, and Waterhouse Clock. The husband of Ruth Brandt — who designed the lettering on the masthead of early editions — decided it. He asked the name of Nà Chuilleanáin’s and Woods’s black cat. She was called Cypher — a name borrowed from several of Woods‘ poems — based on the Arabic word for “zero” and also referring to a code.[7]
One of the co-founders commented that though the magazine was commonly thought to intend to support new writers, this was not specifically the case at all, but that it had helped “several emergences” anyway.[7]
