Paula Meehan

Paula Meehan was born and raised in Dublin’s north inner city. Her award-winning poetry has garnered widespread popular and critical acclaim.

She has conducted workshops in the community, in the prisons, in recovery programmes, and has worked extensively with emerging poets inside and outside the universities.

She has been translated into many languages & recently toured collections in Japanese & Dutch.

She was Ireland Professor of Poetry, 2013–2016 and Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them, her public lectures from the Chair, are published by UCD Press.

Recent publications are As If By Magic: Selected Poems, (2020) and The Solace of Artemis (2023) which received the Pigott Prize for Poetry. They are published by Dedalus Press, Dublin.

She was honoured with election to Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of artists, in 1996.

Photo by Paula Nolan