Mícheál McCann
Mícheál McCann is a poet from Derry City, Northern Ireland. He studied at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens to PhD level and was selected as the Centre’s Publishing Fellow in 2024.
McCann’s first full-length poetry collection, Devotion, was published in 2024 by the Gallery Press. Previously, he published the pamphlets Safe Homes (Green Bottle Press, 2020) and Keeper (Fourteen Poems, 2022). A recipient of the inaugural Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Prize in 2019, McCann was chosen as one of the writers featured in the National Centre for Writing’s International Literature Showcase for 2020–21. His poems have been featured by The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Manchester Review, Banshee Lit, RTÉ, BBC, and other outlets, as well as being anthologized in Queering the Green (Lifeboat Press, 2021) and Romance Options (Dedalus Press, 2023). He is the author of the collaborative artist’s book Waking Light (Skein Press) with Kerri ní Dochartaigh and co-edited UCD Press’ Hold Open the Door: An Ireland Chair of Poetry Commemorative Anthology, and most recently has edited Poetry Ireland Review. He works as a teacher and lives in Belfast with his partner and two profound cats.