Poet Paul Durcan was born in Dublin in 1944. He was educated at University College, Cork, where he studied archaeology and medieval history.

In 1974, he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, and published his first collection O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor in 1975. Subsequent collections include Jesus and Angela, The Berlin Wall Café, and Daddy, Daddy.

Currently Ireland Professor of Poetry, his many awards include the Whitbread Poetry Award and the 1995 Heinemann Award. His most recent collections of poetry are A Snail in my Prime (1993), Cries of an Irish Caveman (2001), and The Art of Life (2004). Paul Durcan lives in Dublin.

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