Irish Haiku

Chris Arthur was born in Belfast and lived for many years in County Antrim. He worked as warden on a nature reserve on the shores of Lough Neagh before enrolling at the University of Edinburgh, where he took a First Class Honours degree followed by a PhD. He has been widely published as an essayist and poet on both sides of the Atlantic. His first essay collection, Irish Nocturnes, was published in 1999; his second collection, Irish Willow, was published in 2002. Chris Arthur was Gifford Fellow at the University of St. Andrews and is a winner of the Akegarasu Haya International Essay Prize, the Beverly Hayne Memorial Award for Young Writers, and the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award. He teaches at the University of Wales, Lampeter.Arthur, Chris is the author of 'Irish Haiku', published 2005 under ISBN 9781888570786 and ISBN 1888570784.