Culture That Made Me: Cork poet Theo Dorgan on Dylan, Lessing, and hurling

'Even though we lived 10 minutes from Shandon steeple, there were fields all around our house'

Theo Dorgan's new work will premiere at Kilkenny Arts Festival. 

Born in 1953, Theo Dorgan is a poet and writer from Cork. He grew up on Redemption Road, near Blackpool, and is married to the poet Paula Meehan. 

In 2004, Dorgan’s Jason and the Argonauts premiered at London’s Royal Albert Hall. In 2015, he won the Poetry Now Award for Nine Bright Shiners, one of several accolades received during his career. He is poet-in-residence at this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival.