Benjamin Keatinge

Ben Keatinge is an Irish poet and critic. He was joint-winner of the Ireland Chair of Poetry inaugural pamphlet competition with his Balkan sequence Waiting for Goran at the Broz Café, published by HOWL New Irish Writing in 2025. He received the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2022 and his poems have been featured in The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review and in several anthologies.He is editor of Making Integral: Critical Essays on Richard Murphy (Cork University Press, 2019) and has co-edited the essay collections France and Ireland in the Public Imagination with Mary Pierse (Peter Lang, 2014) and Other Edens: The Life and Work of Brian Coffey with Aengus Woods (Irish Academic Press, 2010).