Colin Dardis

Biography

Colin Dardis is a poet, editor, and arts coordinator from Northern Ireland. One of Eyewear Publishing's Best New British and Irish Poets 2016, a collection, 'the x of y', was released in 2018 from Eyewear. Colin's poetry has won the Glebe House Harmony Trust Poetry Competition, the Fun Palaces #WriteScience Poetry Competition, and the Edit Red Writers' Choice Award for Poetry. His work has also been shortlisted in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Award, and Dermot Healy International Poetry Competition. He was also longlisted for the Best Reviewer of Literature, Saboteur Awards 2018 Colin co-runs Poetry NI, a multimedia platform for poets. His work has been published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and USA.

Samples

Peeling: Egg The first crack is a misplaced key against the symphony’s roundness, liberating crunch, bringing malleable edges to a fortress of geometry, finding crease in the pool surface, rippling throughout all degrees. Take away the tawny layer to let white ring out: remove fawn, tan, beige and taupe, mushroom rainbow arcing out, fibrin strips arched between fingers. Ungloved, it is a perfect marble: pick it clean of hard spots, tiny triangles of candied remains; a sugar-coated almond sucked clear, rubbery boiled bubble of odd flesh.

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