John FitzGerald: 'I don’t have to be walking through the daffodils to be inspired'

The Cork poet has just launched his new collection, and a sample of the Liss Ard man's work is also on display in Ballincollig Regional Park

John FitzGerald's new collection is The Time Being.

It was a particularly gratifying moment for John FitzGerald when one of his poems was recently selected for display in Ballincollig Regional Park in Cork as part of the Poetry in the Park initiative, bringing poetry to the wider public.

“Poetry can provide a tremendous release in daily life. Reading a poem and appreciating it might take less than a minute yet it is an instant transportation to another world,” he says. “I think that poetry is part of everyday life, and luckily, in Ireland, people are very open and receptive to the written word.”