Patrick Deeley is from Loughrea, County Galway. His poems have won many awards and have been published and translated widely over the past thirty years.

Groundswell: New and Selected Poems, is the latest of his six collections with Dedalus Press. His critically acclaimed memoir, The Hurley Maker’s Son, published by Transworld Ireland, was shortlisted for the Bord Gáis Energy Non-fiction Book of the Year Award 2016 and was a recent bestseller.

Patrick Deeley is from Loughrea, County Galway. His poems have won many awards and have been published and translated widely over the past thirty years.

Groundswell: New and Selected Poems, is the latest of his six collections with Dedalus Press. His critically acclaimed memoir, The Hurley Maker’s Son, published by Transworld Ireland, was shortlisted for the Bord Gáis Energy Non-fiction Book of the Year Award 2016 and was a recent bestseller.