Peter Sirr
Peter Sirr was born in Waterford in 1960.
In 1982 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award and in 1983 the poetry prize at Listowel Writers’' Week.
His collections of poetry are Marginal Zones (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press,1984); Talk, Talk (The Gallery Press, 1987); Ways of Falling (The Gallery Press, 1991); The Ledger of Fruitful Exchange (The Gallery Press, 1995); Bring Everything (The Gallery Press, 2000); Nonetheless (The Gallery Press, 2004); and Selected Poems 1982-2004 (Gallery 2004).
He is a former director of the Irish Writers’ Centre, and a former editor of Poetry Ireland Review.
A member of Aosdána, he lives in Dublin.
