Cathal McCabe
Cathal McCabe (born 1963 in County Down, Northern Ireland), grew up in Warrenpoint. Educated at St Colman's College, Newry, and at the universities of York and Oxford, he lived in Poland for fifteen years where he lectured at the University of Łódź and worked as Literature Consultant with The British Council in Warsaw. From 2003 until 2009 he was Director of the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin.
Cathal McCabe
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- Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis
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Winner of the 2004 Strong Award for Poetry, he was shortlisted for the 2010 Hennessy XO Literary Award in the category Best Emerging Poet. He lives with his family near Rostrevor, County Down. His first published collection is Outer Space: Selected Poems (June 2016), published by Metre Editions, an imprint of Metre poetry magazine (1996–2004), edited by David Wheatley and Justin Quinn.
• at the New Yorker in the Times Literary Supplement • ‘To Elizabeth Bishop’ • at the Irish Times • at the Manchester Review
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• Outer Space: Selected Poems (Metre Editions, June 2016)
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