Irish writer Padraig Rooney has lived most of his life abroad. His first collection of poems In The Bonsai Garden (Raven Arts Press) won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry and his second The Escape Artist (Smith/Doorstop, 2006) was winner of the Poetry Business Competition. The title poem of his new collection The Fever Wards (Salt) won the Strokestown International Poetry Award in 2009. He lives in Switzerland.
