Brian Kirk is an award winning poet and short story writer from Clondalkin in Dublin. He was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2014 and 2015. He won the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award for Poetry in 2014, the Bailieborough Poetry Prize in 2015 and the Galway RCC Poetry Award in 2016. His poetry film Red Line Haiku was featured at the Red Line Book Festival in October 2015 and was subsequently shortlisted for the Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Competition in 2016. His poetry has been widely published and has been nominated for the Forward Prize and Pushcart Prize. His novel for 9-12 year olds The Rising Son was published in December 2015. He is a member of the Hibernian Poetry Workshop.

Books by Brian Kirk:

Other poems on the web by Brian Kirk:
Three poems
"Shed"
Two poems
Five poems

Brian Kirk's Website.

Brian Kirk on Twitter.

About After The Fall:

"Brian Kirk's poetry exhibits mastery of craft and respect for both poetic form and experiment. In his 'broken song / from restless birds', he displays the contemplative gifts of the natural philosopher. Here we have an Everyman exploring the joys of love and familial relationships, the tedium of office and farm work, the disappointments of religion and world politics, 'and the rest / that makes our lives so blundering, so blessed'."
—Breda Wall Ryan