03. STARS John O'Donnell - WATCHING STARS by PoetryJukebox Quotidian published on 2021-05-08T12:01:01Z John O’Donnell’s work has been published and broadcast widely in Ireland and abroad. He has published four poetry collections, the latest of which is Sunlight: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2018). Prizes for poetry include the Irish National Poetry Prize, the Ireland Funds Prize and the Hennessy Award for Poetry. Fiction publications include Counterparts (The Stinging Fly), Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction, the Sunday Tribune, the Sunday Independent, The Stinging Fly, Books Ireland and the Irish Times (online), and RTE’s The Book On One. Awards include the Hennessy Award for Emerging Fiction and Cuirt Festival of Literature New Writing Prize for Fiction. His first collection of short stories Almost the Same Blue (Doire Press) was nominated in the Irish Times as one of the Best Fiction Debuts of 2020, and one of the Books of the Year in the Sunday Independent. He lives and works in Dublin. Genre Poetry
