Eamonn Lynskey's poetry first appeared in the New Irish Writing pages of the Irish Press in the 1980s, edited by David Marcus, and since then widely in magazines and journals such and the Irish Times. He was a finalist in the Strokestown International Poetry Competition and in the Hennessy Awards and has published two collections, Dispatches & Recollections (1998) and And Suddenly the Sun Again (2010). He has been involved in the organization of poetry events in Dublin for many years and has presented poetry programmes on local radio. He obtained an M. Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin in 2012 and participated in the 2013 Stanza Poetry Festival in St. Andrews in Scotland. Before retirement he worked as a teacher and Adult Education organizer.

Books by Eamonn Lynskey:

Other poems on the web by Eamonn Lynskey:
Three poems
"Before the World Was Storied"
Three poems
"The Dark Side of the Earth"

Eamonn Lynskey's Website.

About It's Time:

"Eamonn Lynskey's poems live on the edge of things — people's ordinary lives as much as global concerns — and like all edges they can be razor-sharp. His is a voice unafraid to speak about political urgencies but also well sourced in everyday language and available form. A thought-provoking, unsettling collection of questions rather than answers:

                ... My sorrow for you, whale shark and hammerhead
                and sleek green swordfish suddenly dispossessed
                of your ancestral homelands. You, crayfish
                and damselfish, what will you do unhoused
                from all your fragile labyrinths of coral?"

—Gerald Dawe