Neil McCarthy grew up in West Cork in the eighties watching MacGyver and launching himself from trees on zip wires fashioned from old clothes lines. His sense of adventure followed him into his twenties when he graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and began travelling and writing poetry soon after. He has so far featured as a guest speaker in literary festivals, conferences, fringe festivals etc. in Australia, the US, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Austria to name a few. In this time his poems have also appeared in dozens of international journals and anthologies, in print and online, and have additionally been translated and published in Romania, Serbia, and Hungary. He now lives in Vienna where he teaches English and still climbs the odd tree whenever the chance presents itself.

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Other poems on the web by Neil McCarthy:
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Neil McCarthy's Website.

About Stopgap Grace:

"Stopgap Grace is proof that the sublime and absurd sometimes switch jobs. All sacred words get used and every recklessness sanctified. No sooner has night 'slid its burlap sack over our heads' than we are given 'alibis for something that / never happened.' McCarthy's voice is the one we want when we're running low on grace."
—Brendan Constantine

"Like a love letter to the world on the eve of its destruction."
—Stephen Murray