was born in Callan, Co. Kilkenny in 1943, and presently lives in Limerick. He has six collections of poetry to his credit, Gog and Magog (Salmon Publishing, Galway, 1987), The Poet and His Shadow (Dedalus Press, Dublin, 1990), Listening to Different Drummers (Ibid,1993), The Old Women of Magione (Ibid, 1997), Moving On, Still There: New and Selected Poems (Ibid, 2001), and Life Monitor (Three Spires Press, Cork, 2009). He has won a number of awards for his work, including a Bursary in Literature from the Irish Arts Council (1983), the James Joyce Literary Millennium Prize (1989), and the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry (2000). He is a member of Aosdána.

is a bilingual poet writing both in Irish Gaelic and in English. Among her awards are the Ireland Chair of Poetry bursary 2014 –2015. Her most recent book is Clasp (Dedalus Press, 2015). She writes “with tenderness and unflinching curiosity” (Poetry Magazine, Chicago).

born in 1942, is married to Macdara Woods, and they are founder editors of the literary review Cyphers.  She was educated at University College Cork and The University of Oxford, is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, and a member of Aosdána. Her first collection, Acts and Momuments, won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1973. Ten collections later, in 2010, The Sun–fish was the winner of the Canadian–based International Griffin Poetry Prize.

was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her poems and short stories have been widely published. Her published novels are Four Houses & A Marriage (Poolbeg Press 1997), Civil & Strange (Houghton Mifflin (2008), and Penguin Ireland (2009)). She divides her time between Dublin and Tipperary.