Joseph Woods, poet, writer and former director of Poetry Ireland, has published five books of poetry with his most recent being Veld Fires, Dedalus Press, 2024
Joseph Woods, poet, writer and former director of Poetry Ireland.
He has published five books of poetry with his most recent being Veld Fires, Dedalus Press, 2024. He has edited and co-edited numerous books and anthologies, most recently Romance Options: Love Poems for Today, Dedalus Press, 2022, with Leeanne Quinn. He lives with his family in Lilongwe, Malawi where he writes and researches. A former winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award for his subsequent first book, Sailing to Hokkaido, Worple Press, 2001, he was twice a recipient of the Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship and Literature Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland.
