Award winning UCC legal eagle has a poet’s eye

UCC law professor, John Mee, has been enjoying life since he was recently announced as the winner of the 2015 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award.

Forty-nine-year-old Mee, who was born in Canada and has lived in Cork since he was seven, has been writing poetry since 1990. He was first drawn to short stories, but says there’s something about the compression of poetry that he likes.

Mee’s favourite poets are Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and Sinead Morrissey.