Anti-Laureate of the People's Republic of Cork

The new Southword (no 25) is online packed full of all sorts of literary goodies such as Molia Dumbleton’s O’Faolain Prize winning story...

The problem with having every live reading recorded these days, either in audio or video, is that if you read a new poem, which you ha...

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...