Paul Maddern

Paul Maddern was born in Bermuda and has lived in Ireland since 2000. He has four publications with Templar Poetry, the latest being The Tipping Line (2018), and he edited Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry (Lifeboat Press, 2021). He is the first poet to receive three Bermuda Government Literary Awards and his poem, ‘Effacé’, is studied on the Northern Irish GCSE syllabus. In 2023 he was a James Merrill House Writing Fellow. His next collection is with readers, and he is currently translating, and responding to, the French Uruguayan poet, playwright, and prose writer Jules Supervielle. (https://www.paulmaddern.com/)