Gerard Hanberry is an award-winning Irish poet, writer, musician and teacher. To date he has published four collections of poetry and also a biography of the Wilde family, What Our Shoes Say About Us – The Remarkable Wilde Family Through The Generations (The Collins Press, 2011).
His most recent poetry collection What Our Shoes Say About Us was published by Salmon Poetry in July 2014 and follows At Grattan Road (2009) also published by Salmon Poetry. Paul Perry reviewing At Grattan Road for the Irish Times said the collection ‘is bursting at the seams with fine poems’. A stone plaque of his poem The Kasbah on Quay Street was erected on Quay Street in April 2015. His work has been translated into Italian and Croatian and has been included in various anthologies including Windharp – Poems of Ireland Since 1916 published by Penguin. His latest non-fiction book On Raglan Road – Great Irish Love Songs and the Women Who Inspired Them was published in September 2016 by The Collins Press. Gerard teaches English at St Enda’s College, Salthill and teaches creative writing on the BA Connect course at the National University of Ireland, Galway. www.gerardhanberry.com.