Colin Dardis : part one

Colin Dardis is a poet, editor, and arts coordinator from Northern Ireland. His debut collection, the x of y, was released in 2018 from Eyewear. His work has recently been listed in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Award, and Best Reviewer of Literature, Saboteur Awards 2018. Colin co-runs Poetry NI, a multimedia platform for poets. His work has been published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and USA.

What are you working on?

At the start of January, I just got accepted to release a new collection, entitled The Dogs of Humanity, with Fly on the Wall Poetry. The book won’t be released to August, but my immediate attention is with tightening up those poems, making them as good as possible. There’s going to be between 30-40 pieces, all loosely related through canine or other animal imagery.  I’m also writing a 50,000 word novella via Twitter, called The Lost Stations. It’s a story entirely in the third person, told through 15 different locations, and I’m tweeting about 130-150 words a day.