Vincent Woods is a writer, broadcaster and Poet Laureate for Carrick on Shannon. His plays include ‘At the Black Pig’s Dyke’ and ‘A Cry from Heaven’. Poetry collections are ‘The Colour of Language’, ‘Lives and Miracles’ and ‘Borderlines’, with Henry Glassie.
Vincent Woods is a writer, broadcaster and Poet Laureate for Carrick on Shannon. His plays include ‘At the Black Pig’s Dyke’ and ‘A Cry from Heaven’. Poetry collections are ‘The Colour of Language’, ‘Lives and Miracles’ and ‘Borderlines’, with Henry Glassie. With Eva Bourke he co-edited ‘Fermata: Writings Inspired by Music’; and with Australian poet Colleen Burke co-edited ‘The Turning Wave: Poems and Songs of Irish Australia’. Plays for radio include ‘The Gospels of Aughamore’, ‘Broken Moon’ and ‘Last Supper at the Imperial Hotel’.
His work with music and musicians includes stage shows ‘The Leitrim Equation’, ‘Open Room’ and ‘Portal’. He wrote the libretto for Gavin Bryars’ composition ‘Wittgenstein Fragments’ premiered by Louth Contemporary Music Society. He is currently presenting the radio series ‘The County Measure’ on RTÉ Radio 1. Vincent is director of the Iron Mountain Literature Festival in Leitrim. He lives in Dublin and is a member of Aosdána.
