Theo Dorgan is one of the best known Irish poets of his generation. Born in Cork in 1953, he is the author of many collections of poems including Greek (2010) and Nine Bright Shiners (2014) which won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. His prose publications include Sailing for Home (2004) and Time on the Ocean: A Voyage from Cape Horn to Cape Town (2010). He is a former Director of Poetry Ireland and is a frequent radio and television broadcaster in Ireland. His awards include the O’Shaughnessy Prize for Irish Poetry in 2010 and the Listowel Prize in 1992. He is a member of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of writers and artists.