|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
||||
|
|||||
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
Michael McKimm was born in Belfast in 1983 and grew up near the Giant's Causeway. He graduated from the
Creative Writing Programme at the University of Warwick in 2004 and won an Eric Gregory award in 2007. He
lives in London, where he works for the Geological Society Library. His poetry is published in various journals and
anthologies, including Best Irish Poetry in English 2010 (edited by Matthew Sweeney), and he reviews regularly
for The Warwick Review.
Michael has read his work throughout the UK and Ireland, including at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, the Stanza Festival and the Féile na Gréine in Co. Kerry. In Autumn 2010 he was British Council Writer-in-Residence at the University of Iowa, USA, as part of the International Writing Program. More information on the residency can be found here. His first collection of poetry is Still This Need (Heaventree Press, 2009). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
