About the Author

Peter Sirr lives in Dublin. He is a prize-winning poet as well as a critic, essayist and translator.

He has published eight collection of poetry with The Gallery Press, including The Thing Is (2009), winner of the Michael Hartnett Award, and Selected Poems (2004).

For many years he was Director of the Irish Writers’ Centre and was also editor of the national poetry magazine, Poetry Ireland Review. He is a member of Aosdána. He is married to the poet and children’s writer Enda Wyley.

Black Wreath is his first novel.