Cormac CulkeenJoin thousands of poets and follow us online to ask questions, win books, receive news and chat. www.BeirBuaPress.com https: //twitter.com/beirbuapress https: //www.instagram.com/beirbuapress/ https: //www.facebook.com/beirbuapress https: //www.youtue.com/channel/UCdlyd1MKVthfnqJ__fW99Aw https: //www.tiktok.com/@beirbuapress/video/7096952834100432134?_t=8SG8j5OtZCg&_r=1 "Every now and then a collection of poems comes along that just blows you away and is astonishing when they are a debut collection. If the role of poetry is to move you, then Cormac has succeeded brilliantly. This collection goes on my top shelf, alongside the books I return to again and again." Ken Bruen, an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction. "Cormac Culkeen is the sort of poet Ireland desperately needs right now. His poems throw a sharp, interrogating light on places and people contemporary Ireland generally likes to omit from its official version of itself. A plain-speaking neo-surrealist in the manner of Richard Brautigan has arisen from the rarely written of townlands of north county Galway. I have been a fan of Culkeen's writing since I first stumbled across it in a literary magazine in 2002. The publication of The Boy with the Radio is a true cause for celebration. If I ever become Minister for Justice, Culkeen's poems will be force fed to Sandymount liberals as part of their cultural re-education." Kevin Higgins, poet, political writer, founder of Over The Edge Writer's Centre, latest work out with Beir Bua Press. Read More Read Less