Listen to Catherine Walsh!

Catherine Walsh was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1964, has spent some time living and working abroad, and currently lives in Limerick. She co-edited two issues of “the Journal,” published by hardPressed Poetry, and currently co-edits the hardPressed Poetry press with Billy Mills. Catherine has published over ten books of poetry with a variety of presses in Ireland and England and has received much acclaim for her long-form, experimental projects. Her most recent work, Astonished Birds Cara Jane, Bob and James came out through hardPressed Poetry in 2012. Her work has been included in a number of anthologies, including the Oxford Anthology of Twentieth-Century British & Irish Poetry and No Soy Tu Musa, a bilingual Spanish/English anthology of Irish women poets.