Irish Teacher: We all need mentors, I count myself lucky the poet Kevin Higgins was mine

Jennifer Horgan: 'Teachers are often wonderful mentors. I see that every day.' Picture: Larry Cummins

The poet Kevin Higgins died last week. I knew him as a mentor. I don’t think any of us can get through life without our mentors, whether they visit us for a single moment in adulthood or guide us through our most formative years.

As it happened, I met Kevin Higgins only once, at a poetry reading in Dublin. We both had pieces in an anthology edited by Jenny Farrell.