Billy Mills (poet)

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Billy Mills (born 1954) is an Irish experimental poet. He was born in Dublin, and lived in Barcelona from 1986 to 1989, after which he taught English in Eastbourne. He lives in Limerick. [1]

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Mills is the founder and co-editor (with poet Catherine Walsh) of the hardPressed poetry imprint and the Journal. [2] [3] [4] The goal of hardPressed poetry is to publish and distribute mainly Irish poetry "that you won't often find in your local bookshop". [5]

He is a regular contributor of articles on The Guardian newspaper's book blog. [6]

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References

  1. "Author: Billy Mills". Irish Writers Online. Archived from the original on 17 July 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2009.
  2. "Author: Catherine Walsh". Irish Writers Online. Archived from the original on 17 July 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2009.
  3. Example poems Archived May 24, 2006, at the Wayback Machine from Paper Places
  4. http://gofree.indigo.ie/~hpp/journ.html [ bare URL ]
  5. hardPressed poetry
  6. "Billy Mills". The Guardian . Archived from the original on 9 June 2023.