Catherine Walsh
Author photo, Cork, 2004, by Tony Frazer.
Shearsman Titles
City West
About the author
Irish poet Catherine Walsh is noted for her long poems in experimental forms, and City West, completed in 2000, is her most recent such work, following Pitch (Pig Press, 1994) and Idir Eatortha (Invisible Books, 1996). Until the Shearsman publication City West was only available in an Irish small-press edition, with a tiny print-run. Catherine Walsh is now working on another long text, Optic Verve, which Shearsman hopes to publish upon its completion.
Catherine Walsh was born in Dublin, growing up between that city and rural Wexford. She now lives near Limerick, Ireland. City West is her sixth book, following The Ca Pater Pillar Thing and More Besides, Making Tents, Short Stories, Pitch, & Idir Eatortha and Making Tents.