Paddy Bushe is a bilingual poet, editor and translator. A Dubliner, he has lived in Kerry since 1973. His most recent book is The Amergin Step, and he is a member of Aosdána.
Paddy Bushe lives in Kerry, and is a poet and translator in both Irish and English. He has published thirteen collections of poetry, and has translated the work of Somhairle MacGill-Eain, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Gabriel Rosenstock, Zhang Ye and Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin. The recipient of the Oireachtas prize for poetry in 2006, he also received the 2006 Michael Hartnett Poetry Award and the 2017 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. His most recent poetry collections are Peripheral Vision, a collection in English, and Second Sight, a selection of his poems in Irish with his own translations into English, both from Dedalus Press in 2020. In 2024 he published The Amergin Step, a long prose work exploring the link between the landscape and literature of his adoptive homeplace in Iveragh, Co. Kerry. He is a member of Aosdána.
