Seamus Cashman
Seamus Cashman was born in Conna, Co Cork in 1943.
His poetry collections are Carnival (Dublin, Monarchline, 1987); Clowns & Acrobats (Monarchline, Dublin, October, 1997); and That Morning Will Come, New & Selected Poems (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2007)
He has edited, with Bridie Quinn, The Wolfhound Book of Irish Poems for Young People, (Wolfhound Press, 1975; 5th paperback reissue, 1994). He has also edited and translated (with Sean Gaffney) Proverbs & Sayings of Ireland (Wolfhound Press, 1974; 9th paperback reissue, 1994); and an illustrated children’s poetry anthology, Something Beginning with P (Dublin, O’Brien Press, 2004)
He established Wolfhound Press in 1974 as a literary and cultural publishing house and was its publisher for 27 years.
He lives in Co Dublin.