'John

Micheal McCann reads 'John 20:15' from his debut collection, Devotion, published by The Gallery Press in May 2024.
At the heart of Mícheál McCann’s eagerly awaited first collection is ‘Keen for A- ’, a re-imagining of Eileen O’Connell’s heartrending Lament for Art O’Leary. In Devotion the poet transports the original tragedy in time and place. Echoing the 18th-century Irish, it lives now in contemporary Belfast where a young man’s male lover is murdered.
For all the solemnity of its subject matter love poems leaven its atmosphere as Mícheál McCann’s debut glows with the sense of someone who knows he has ‘discovered the name of his destination’.
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Mícheál McCann is from Derry City. His poems have been published in The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review and Banshee, and anthologized in Queering the Green (Lifeboat Press, 2021) and Romance Options (Dedalus Press, 2023). He holds a PhD from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s where he is the 2024 Publishing Fellow.
Devotion is his first collection.