Music for Dogs

Best known as one of the leading Irish poets of her generation, Paula Meehan is also an accomplished and much-admired playwright, and her stage work has been performed by, among others, Team Theatre Company, Rough Magic, Calypso Theatre Company and The National Theatre Company at the Peacock. As well as her work for stage, in recent years she has also written for radio, a medium which provides particular scope for the oral and sonic qualities so often admired in her writing. Music for Dogs presents, for the first time in print, a selection of that work for radio from a poet of “perfect pitch” (Midwest Book Review). Janey Mack is Going to Die, The Lover and Threehander were all written for and first performed on RTE Radio 1.

Author Biography

Paula Meehan was born in 1955 in Dublin where she still lives.
She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and in the US at Eastern
Washington University. She has published seven collections of
poetry, the most recent of which is Geomantic (2016), for which
she received a Cholmondeley Award. Other awards and
honours include the Butler Literary Award for Poetry presented
by the Irish American Cultural Institute, the Marten Toonder
Award for Literature, the Denis Devlin Award, The Lawrence
O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry, and the PPI Award for Radio
Drama. Dedalus Press also publishes Music for Dogs, a
collection of work for radio. A member of Aosdána, she was
Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2013 to 2016.