Padraig Regan's debut collection Some Integrity was published by Carcanet in 2022 and received the Clarissa Luard Award and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. They are the author of two poetry pamphlets: Delicious (Lifeboat, 2016) and Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real (Emma Press, 2017). In 2015, they were a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and in 2020 they were awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Prize. They hold a PhD on creative-critical and hybridised writing practices in medieval texts and the work of Anne Carson from the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University Belfast, where they were a Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow in 2021. They were a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge from 2022 to 2024.
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'In this fascinating, rigorous collection of poems Padraig Regan discloses the eros embedded in natural forms, even forms that seem to eschew form. From slugs to molluscs, from algae to succulents, from ammonites to gogottes: the poems address them tenderly as fellows that bruise or break like us, finding their bodily analogs in placentas and tumours and vertebrae.' Ange Mlinko 'To look up from Padraig Regan's words is to find oneself gently re-fitted into the world' Anthony V. Capildeo