Thomas McCarthy was born in Co. Waterford in 1954 and educated at University College, Cork. He has published six collections of poetry, two novels and a memoir. He has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the American-Irish Foundation's Literary Award, and the O'Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry. He has worked for Cork City Libraries since 1987. He is a member of Aosdana.
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'Not many poets have the gift of being able to write so tenderly about private affections and so acutely about public figures and events' - Brendan Kennelly'McCarthy has a tone which is very much his own, a kind of burnished commonplace. He writes true satires of circumstance.' - Peter Porter, The Observer'A body of work to be treasured by anyone interested in Irish literature today' - Dermot Bolger, The Sunday Tribune