Kevin Higgins was born in London in 1967, and grew up in Galway City. His poetry has appeared widely in literary journals in Ireland, Britain, the United States, Canada, France, Belgium, Finland, Italy & New Zealand. His work also features in the anthologies Short Fuse, Breaking The Skin: New Irish Poetry, 100 Poets Against The War & Irish Writers Against War. He has reviewed poetry for Metre, Books In Canada, Poetry Quarterly Review, Vallum, & Canadian Notes & Queries. He was a founding co-editor of The Burning Bush literary magazine and is the poetry critic of The Galway Advertiser. In April 2003 he won the Poetry Grand Slam at the Cuirt International Festival of Literature, and went on to represent Ireland in the European Grand Slam in Paris. He is an accomplished performer of his work and has read at literary festivals in Ireland, Britain, the United States & France.
"Kevin Higgins is a master of the grim and bearing it. Higgins could turn out to be Ireland's contemporary answer to Larkin." Books In Canada "Upfront, delivered in an informal, conversational manner which delights in its own wry black humour, it is the poetry of the urban twenty-first century, casting a sharply critical eye over the condition of contemporary society." Metre"
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