John FitzGerald

John FitzGerald won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Prize for 2014. Soon after, his first appearance in print came in the New Irish Writing Page of the Irish Times, for which he was shortlisted for a 2015 Hennessy New Irish Writing Award in the Emerging Poetry category. Since then, his poems have appeared widely in journals, newspapers and anthologies. A pamphlet, First Cut was published in 2017 by Southword Editions, in their New Irish Voices Series. In 2019, he was invited by the Salvage Press, Dublin, to collaborate with the Irish artist Dorothy Cross on a limited-edition handmade book of his poems about the night called Darklight. A further Salvage Press limited edition entitled Haiku na Feirme was published in 2022. His first full-length collection, The Time Being was published in June 2021 by The Gallery Press, marking his formal debut to Irish and international poetry. His translation The Lament for Art O'Leary was published by the Gallery Press in 2023 and his next book of poems Long Distance was published by the Gallery Press in April 2024. He is the lead editor of Ireland-Japan Connections and Crossings: Celebrating Sixty-Five Years of Diplomatic Relationships published by Cork University Press in 2022. John worked from 1995 to 2022 as the University Librarian at University College Cork. He has lived at various times in Dublin, London, and Florence. He lives with his family on a farm in County Cork. For more information see: www johnafitzgerald com