KEITH PAYNE is the author of ten collections of poetry in translation as well as original poetry, most recently Building the Boat (2023), as featured on BBC Radio 3’s The Essay, and Whales and Whales, from the Galician of Luisa Castro (2024). He was awarded an Arts Council Literature Bursary in 2022 and has held numerous Writer-in-Residence positions, including as Cork City Library Eco Poet in Residence 2022–23. Dividing his time between Ireland and Galicia, Keith Payne is the founder and curator of the Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill Poetry Exchange Ireland/Galicia. In 2025 Dedalus Press published Keith Payne’s poetry collection, Savage Acres, revisiting the then-new urban estates of Ireland’s capital city – his own formative playing fields.