ABOUT GERALD
The publications Introductions, Falling into Monaghan and Historiographilia marked his later work here. Falling into Cornwall, a major collection (launched in the Arts Clubs in Penzance and St Ives) marked his family's transition to Cornwall. This has been followed by Graphohistoricity, Salthouse and Chapel and A Shared Experience, the latter two CDs with artist/ poet Bob Devereux and musician Aidan O'Reilly. His work is currently being edited by Alan M. Kent for a Cornish selection, Wave Hub this Autumn. Gerald has read at many literary festivals in the West, including St Ives, Marazion, Newlyn, Lamorna, Penzance – and in Truro and Falmouth. He has been a member of Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Society.
Gerald's work has featured on radio and in magazines. He has read and lectured at over 90 different locations throughout Ireland and Cornwall in the last 25 years. These include Poetry Festivals, universities, schools and colleges, summer schools, symposia, poetry workshops and radio. Along with his own poetry he has specialised in the Brontes, Victorian and Georgian verse, the Romantics, Emily Dickinson, the Carlyles, C19 Gothic and George Gissing. He has a solid working knowledge of Irish poetry from Yeats to Heaney.
