Anti-Laureate of the People's Republic of Cork

I am happy to be the recipient of the 2013 Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry. Since the age of twenty I have been finalist for various liter...

International Poets in Conversation Link Here Ilya Kaminsky very generously invited me to Chicago to record at the Poetry Foundation an ...

Photo: Phoebe Wong September 2013 QUESTIONS FOR PATRICK COTTER , Poezija magazine, Zagreb, autumn 2013. Interviewer: Damir Šodan ...

In 2008 the National Endowment for the Arts in the USA announced that 92% of Americans had read no poetry in the previous twelve months. Som...

In the 21st Century, age of austerity, state funding for culture is coming under increasing attack from right-wing economists who, to quote...

Today I was reading the poems of the Pittsburgh Jew, Gerald Stern, whom I had once met, several years ago. His distinctive, cantor’s voi...

    I am very excited to have sent to the printers the brochure for the 2013 Cork Spring Poetry Festival. You can be the first to vie...