Paul Jeffcutt

Paul Jeffcutt is a writer who lives in Co. Down, Northern Ireland.

Paul’s second poetry collection, The Skylark’s Call, is published by Dempsey & Windle in November 2020. The theme of the book is the vitality and impermanence of everyday life. All of the poems were written during his years of treatment for, and recovery from, advanced cancer. The poems reflect on the memories and meanings that surround this complex borderland.

Paul has won thirty three awards for poetry in national and international competitions in Ireland, the UK and the USA.

His poems have been published in literary journals in Australia, Austria, Canada, Ireland, the UK and the USA.

Paul is an acclaimed reader and performer of his work, featuring four times on BBC Radio and regularly appearing at arts festivals in the UK and Ireland. In 2018 he was invited to read in the Scottish Poetry Library at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

In 2011, Paul began a weekly blog, Writing to Survive, about his cancer treatment and living with the threat of recurrence. The blog has garnered many plaudits and has hundreds of regular readers.

He is an Emeritus Professor of Queen’s University, Belfast, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.