Description
Frank Farrelly is from Waterford. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Revival, The Stinging Fly, The SHOp, Crannóg, The Honest Ulsterman, The Moth, Southword, North West Words, The Stony Thursday Book, Howl, The Waxed Lemon, Skylight 47, Poetry Introductions (Incredible Things Do Happen), Boyne Berries, Teachers Who Write, Poets Meet Politics, Poets Meet Painters, The Irish Examiner, and Fish Anthology.
He has been involved as facilitator and tutor for three creative writing groups in Waterford and Tramore over the past few years, all of whom have published anthologies of their own group’s work. In 2017, he published his first poetry pamphlet, Close to Home, with the help of a Literary Bursary from Waterford Artlinks, following a Mentoring Programme with poet Grace Wells. Waterford Artlinks also awarded him a Residential Bursary for the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. In 2019, he was selected by Martina Evans for The Poetry Ireland Introductions Series.
His first full length poetry collection, The Boiler Room, was published by Revival Press in 2020.
