Keith Payne
Keith Payne is the author of ten collections of poetry in translation and original poetry, most recently Savage Acres (Dedalus Press, 2025) and Building the Boat (Badly Made Books, 2023), as featured on BBC Radio 4’s The Essay. He was John Broderick Writer in Residence 2021-22, Cork City Eco Poet in Residence 2023, was awarded an Artist in the Community Scheme from Create in 2022 and an Arts Council Literature Bursary in 2022. Having run the La Malinche Readings Ireland/Galicia since 2016, he founded and curates the Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill Poetry Exchange Ireland/Galicia in association with Literature Ireland, Poetry Ireland and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig. He translated Luisa Castro’s poetry collection Baleas e Baleas from Galician into English and it was published by Skein Press as Whales and Whales in April 2024. Keith’s new collection Savage Acres is published by Dedalus Press in April 2025.
