Patrick Galvin, one of Ireland most distinctive and original poets, was born in Cork in 1927.
Author of seven collections of poetry his work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and has been broadcast by the BBC and RTE.
Galvin is master of the understatement combining black humour with intense compassion to create a poetry that is directly political and humane, expressed with conviction in an effortless style of great emotional depth.
His first collection of poetry Heart of Grac.
Cork University Press New and selected poems of patrick galvin, paperback/greg delanty
