"Sly and wry and sometimes shiningly
transcendent. Cotter's poems merge myth, magic, and the
dark hilarity of daily life."
- Anneli Rufus, East
Bay Express
"...something truly special. "
- Ailbhe Darcy,
Verbal
"…delightful,
wry observations, all determinedly involving our every
sense. Cotter is a story teller and a crafter of
allegories. It’s clever stuff, a joy to read aloud,
rhythmic, melodious... Cotter has the knack of making
you care for his eccentric characters, feel their pain
and dilemmas, hope for a gentle outcome."
- Melissa Todd,
Confluence
Cotter's published work includes
several chapbooks, the verse novella The
Misogynist’s Blue Nightmare (Raven Arts Press,
1990) and the full collections, Perplexed Skin
(Arlen House 2008), Making Music (Three Spires Press
2009), and Sonic White Poise (Dedalus Press
2021). No One Knows - a bilingual
selection was published in Macedonia in 2014.
His work has appeared in many anthologies including Separate
Islands: Contemporary British and Irish poetry
(Quarry, Ontario) Irish Poetry Now (Wolfhound) Jumping
off Shadows - Some Contemporary Irish Poets (Cork
University Press) The Irish Eros (Gill &
Macmillan) The Backyards of Heaven
(Newfoundland) Something Beginning with P
(O'Brien Press) and in The Great Book of Ireland.
His translations of the Estonian poet Andres Ehin are
collected in the book Moosebeetle Swallow
(Southword Editions).
He has published poems in journals and
newspapers. such as the Financial Times, the London
Review of Books, the Irish Times, PN Review, Poetry,
Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales
and elsewhere.
Cotter’s own poems have been translated
into Chinese, Croatian, Estonian, French, Hindi,
Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norse, Norwegian, Polish,
Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
He has given readings of his work in Ireland, Canada,
China, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Italy,
Macedonia, Norway, Slovenia, Turkey and the USA.
In 2013 he received the Keats-Shelley
Prize for Poetry.
Cotter is poetry editor of Southword.
He has guest-edited Poetry (
September 2015) . He has edited many anthologies,
including Poems from Pandemia (Southword Editions
2020). He founded the Gregory O'Donoghue International
Poetry Competition and The Fool for Poetry Chapbook
Competition.
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