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Dave Lordan

Lordan's debut collection of poetry The Boy in The Ring (Salmon Poetry 2007) won an Irish Arts Council Bursary, The Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for best first collection, as well as being shortlisted for the Irish Times poetry prize.

Chasing butterflies

[ fiction - may 09 ]

"The prospect of there being more pleasure elsewhere than there is in my bed is the only thing that ever gets me out of it. Luckily, I am a writer."

Chicken lecture

[ fiction - june 08 ]

"Liberated / Runaway / Escapee / Fugitive / Utopian / Guerrilla / Insurgent / Partisan / Terrorist / Freedom-loving Chickens: A tiny number of these exist."

Postnatal ward, Holles Street & Grogan's Bar

[ poetry - december 06 ]