Patrick Cotter Born Cork, 1963. Writer, and publisher. Cotter was educated at UCC. Cotter’s poems can be found in such journals as Poetry Durham, Oxford Poetry, The Salmon, The Shop, Poetry Ireland Review and many other places. He has published several chapbooks of his poems including The Misogynist’s Blue Nightmare (Raven Arts Press), A Socialist’s Dozen (Three Spires Press), and The True Story of Aoife and Lir’s Children & other poems (Three Spires Press). His work has appeared in the anthologies Separate Islands: Contemporary British and Irish poetry (Quarry, Ontario) Irish Poetry Now (Wolfhound) Jumping off Shadows - Some Contemporary Irish Poets (Cork University Press) The Irish Eros (Gill & Macmillan) The Backyards of Heaven (Newfoundland) Something Beginning with P (O'Brien Press) and in The Great Book of Ireland. He has published short fiction in Cyphers, New Irish Writing and elsewhere. His translations of the Estonian poet Andres Ehin are collected in the book Moosebeetle Swallow (Southword Editions). His play Beauty and the Stalker was produced at the Granary Theatre, Cork in 2000. In 1984 he was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award. Cotter was runner-up in the Patrick Kavanagh award in 1988. His poems have been translated into Chinese, Estonian, Italian, Macedonian, Norse, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.  He has given readings of his work in Ireland, California,China, Germany, Estonia, Macedonia, Norway, Italy, India and Turkey. After leaving college in the mid 80s Cotter worked as Literature Officer at the Triskel Arts Centre before embarking on a long career as a bookseller which ended in 2002. He currently directs the Munster Literature Centre, where he works as a publisher and festival programmer. 

Patrick's first full-length collection of poems Perplexed Skin was published by Arlen House in 2008. Making Music followed in 2009.