Paddy Bushe

Paddy Bushe (born 1948) is an Irish poet.

Life
Bushe was born in Dublin.

Recognition
Bushe won the Oireachtas prize for poetry in 2006 and the 2006 Michael Hartnett Poetry Award. He is a member of Aosdána.

He won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award in 2017 for his collection, On a Turning Wing.

Publications
His poetry collections include Poems With Amergin (Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1989); Teanga (Baile Átha Cliath, Coiscéim, 1990); Counsellor (Kerry, Sceilg Press, 1991); Digging Towards The Light (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 1994); In Ainneoin na gCloch (Coiscéim, 2001); Hopkins on Skellig Michael (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2001); The Nitpicking of Cranes (Dedalus, 2004); To Ring in Silence, new and selected poems (Dedalus, 2008); My Lord Buddha of Carraig Eanna (Dedalus Press, 2012); and On A Turning Wing (Dedalus Press, 2016).

edited the anthology Voices at the World’s Edge: Irish Poets on Skellig Michael (Dedalus, 2010).

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