Rafael Mendes
Rafael Mendes is a Black Brazilian-Irish poet.
Mendes’ debut poetry pamphlet is The Migrant Dictionary, published in 2025 by HOWL New Irish Writing and co-winner of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Pamphlet Series. His work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Wasafari, Propel, gorse, and other journals.
Mendes was selected for Poetry Ireland’s 2023 Introduction Series and was awarded the Irish Writers Centre/Tyrone Guthrie Centre Lacuna Bursary 2023. He is currently a PhD candidate in Latin American Studies at Trinity College Dublin and an Early Career Researcher at the Trinity Long Room Hub.
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More Rafael Mendes
Text: Read Mendes' "Searching for Grandfather" at RTÉ Culture
Video: Mendes reads his poem "On Swords Road" at the Special Collections Reading Room, UCD
Audio/text: Read and listen to Mendes' poem "under" at Propel
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Photo by Matthew Thompson.