Colin Dardis is a poet, editor and arts coordinator from Northern Ireland. His work has been published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and the US. Having had a childhood speech impediment, attending speech therapy classes throughout primary school, his initial interest in language and words grew out of this formative experience. His personal history of depression and mental illness is also an ongoing influence on his work. Dardis is known for his devotion to supporting and developing the Northern Irish poetry scene. This is his debut full length collection.

Books by Colin Dardis:

Other poems on the web by Colin Dardis:
"Yes Ministers"
Four poems
"Love’s Education"
"Train Scenes"
Three poems
Three poems

Colin Dardis's Website.

Colin Dardis on Twitter.

About the x of y:

"In THE X OF Y, Colin Dardis is a poetry sleuth, a gentle but dedicated interrogator of humanness; a subtle seeker-sifter who works to uncover and carefully examine evidence taken from the yin and yang of everydayness, from the daily dust of our routines and interactions with those around us, especially with those we hold dear. And, like all good sleuths, he invariably gets his wo/man."
—Adrian Rice

"The poetry of Colin Dardis is multi-tonal. He can be tender or enraged, applying his observant eye and attuned ear to the every-day and the eternal and treating each with the same seriousness. His is a humane voice in a world of increasing dissonance, where identity politics threaten to overwhelm and dehumanise, where the kerbstone and telegraph pole blind too many to the real lives behind, where salvation may just lie in the revealed glory of a peeled boiled egg."
—Nessa O'Mahony