Description
Derval Tubridy is an Irish poet whose work responds to the intimate traces that bind and blind. Born in Bandon, Co. Cork, she is based in Dublin. Professor Emerita of Goldsmiths, London, she is the author of Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems (UCD Press, 2001) and Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity (Cambridge UP, 2018). Winner of the 2023 Red Line Poetry Competition, she was Highly Commended in the 2024 Fool For Poetry Chapbook competition, the 2025 Southword Editor’s Poetry Prize and the 2025 Patrick Kavanagh Prize. She is a 2026 Irish Writer’s Centre National Mentoring Programme Awardee. Her poetry has been published in The North, The Stinging Fly, Howl, The Irish Times, The Stony Thursday Poetry Book, The Monster’s Back and is forthcoming in Southward.
