Irish Poet and Critic

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Bio:

Mícheál McCann is a poet from Derry City. His poems have appeared widely and been anthologised and translated.

His two full-length collections, Devotion (2024) and Lives of the Saints (2026) are published by The Gallery Press.

‘Mícheál McCann’s […] voice, too, a wonderfully flexible accomplishment: both straight-forward and artfully oblique, conversational and wrought’

— Mark Doty, author of
‍ ‍My Alexandria.

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