offers these poems from Geomantic a commemorative quilt in 81 nine line, nine syllable verses to be published by Dedalus Press, Dublin, autumn of 2016. She is Ireland Professor of Poetry, 2013 –2016, the commemorative years.

awards include the Hennessy Poetry award and a Faber Academy fellowship. She has been selected by Poetry Ireland Review as one of Ireland’s rising poets. Her second collection, Ghost of the Fisher Cat (Salmon Poetry), published in February 2016, has been nominated for the UK Forward prize for best collection.

was born in Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, Ireland in 1954. He was educated at University College Cork. He is the winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Award, 1977, Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, 1980, and O’Shaughnessy Poetry Prize, 1991. He was a fellow at the International Writing Programme, University of Iowa, 1978 –1979. A former editor of Poetry Ireland Review and guest editor of The Stony Thursday Book, he has directed writing workshops at Listowel Writers’ Week, Arvon Foundation, and Molly Keane House. His most recent books are, The Last Geraldine Officer, (2009) and Pandemonium, (May 2015).  He is a member of Aosdána.

is the author of seventeen books: novels, short–story collections, memoir, and poetry. He is a winner of the Irish Times; C Day Lewis and Hennessy Literary Awards. He lives in Co. Carlow, Ireland.