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Moya Cannon’s most recent collection, Bunting’s Honey, (Carcanet Press, 20250, was among Guardian’s “best recent poetry” collections and received a Poetry Book Society recommendation. Her Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, February, 2021) brings together poems from six previous books, Oar (1990), The Parchment Boat (1997), Carrying the Songs (1907), Hands (2011), Keats Lives (2015) and Donegal Tarantella (2019), more than three decades’ work, a poetry of individual poems which compose a memorable, unpredictable sequence of discovery.

She was born and grew up in Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal, Ireland, spent thirty years of her adult life in Galway and now lives in Dublin with her husband.

Music, history, geology, archaeology and art, including prehistoric art, continue to inform her work. Walks among the mountains and shores of Clare, Conamara , the Aran Islands and Wicklow provide inspiration for many of her poems. Other poems have been sparked by visits to places further afield, from the island of Torcello in Venice to a sacred lake in China. A major preoccupation is our evolving relationship with earth and seas through time and a concern with the effect of the human footprint on our beautiful planet.

She has been a recipient of the Brendan Behan Award and the O’Shaughnessy Award and was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Villanova. She is a member of Aosdána.