About the author
Lorcán Black is an Irish poet. His poetry has been published in The Tomahawk Review, Stirring, Letters Journal, The Rush, Grim & Gilded, New Writing Scotland, Snapdragon, Connecticut River Review, Northern New England Review, The Los Angeles Review & The Stinging Fly, amongst numerous others.
He is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Two Sylvias Prize and The Paris Literary Prize respectively.
His first collection, Rituals, was published by April Gloaming Publishing in 2019. His second collection, Strange Husbandry, is out now from Seren books.
Strange Husbandry is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for 2024 and has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Poetry for 2024 and the Dylan Thomas Prize for Poetry for 2025.
You can find him on socials @LorcanBlack
In The Press
‘Through pandemic isolation and upheaval; through the glitter and gutters of London; through spectral exes and specular new love; through the guts of night, the self, Tori Amos, and the moon, Strange Husbandry sings.’ – Chen Chen