Ben McGuire’s poetry pamphlet Luke the World: Elegies for a Brother won
the Liverpool-based Coast to Coast to Coast Journal Prize in 2023. Poems
of Ben’s have appeared in The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review
(viewable online here and here), Stand Magazine, Wild Court, The North,
The Passionfruit Review, and Dedalus Press’s Isolation PoemCards.
In 2024 he was awarded a place on the Irish Writers Centre’s National
Mentoring Programme. Previously he has had poems commended in the
Troubadour Prize and been runner-up for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry
Award.
Ben has collaborated with photographers Billy Kenrick (here are some
poems ‘set’ to photographs) and Michael Durand, and has translated
poetry from Italian, especially work by Franca Mancinelli. The band Hund
set one of his poems to music as the last song, ‘Gone Everywhere’, on this
E.P.
Ben lives in Bray and works as a teacher of English and Italian.
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