Alan Gillis

Alan Gillis:  has published four poetry books with The Gallery Press: Scapegoat (2014), Here Comes the Night (2010), Hawks and Doves (2007) and Somebody, Somewhere (2004). A Selected Poems for the USA is published by Wake Forest University Press: Scapegoat and Other Poems (2016). He was winner of the Strong Award for Best First Collection in Ireland, and has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize, and for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. He was selected as a ‘Next Generation Poet’ by the Poetry Book Society in the UK in 2014. From 2010 2015 he was editor of Edinburgh Review.

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