Paul Perry is the author and editor of a number of critically acclaimed books including The Drowning of the Saints, Goldsmith’s Ghost, 108 Moons and The Orchid Keeper. He teaches creative writing for Kingston University, London, and University College Dublin and is Course Director in Poetry for the Faber Academy in Dublin.

Forthcoming: The Last Falcon and Small Ordinance, The Dedalus Press, 2010.

The Orchid Keeper

"Each poem bristles with life and longing, intelligence and wit. These are lines and stanzas and peoms that signal wisdom beyond his youth. In this sense he is a prodigiously gifted poet".
Fred D'Aguiar

November 2006
ISBN 1 904556 53 1

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