John Kavanagh

John Kavanagh was born in Sligo in 1960. He works as a Laboratory Technician at the Sligo Institute of Technology. He is a winner of the Poetry Prize at Listowel Writers' Week, 1988. Half-Day Warriors is his second collection, his first Etchings, also published by Salmon, appeared in 1991. He is also a playwright and author of No Comet Seen among other works for the stage. Presently he is at work on a third collection, a book length meditation on the character, themes and incidents of the Táin.