About

Robin McNamara

Robin McNamara lives in Waterford City and his debut chapbook shall be published with Hedgehog Poetry Press in early 2021.

A prolific poet, he has over 145 poems published worldwide, including work published in the USA with Starving Writers, and in the UK with Saccharine Poetry.

Robin is a regular contributor to Poetry Ireland and Black Bough Poetry poetry, as well as being a guest prompter with Poetry Ireland. UCD Library have a selection of his pandemic poems in their archives as a record of poems written during this period.

Robin also regularly contributes to Spillwords, where he was nominated twice for poem and author of the month. Robin was selected as Spillwords Author of the Month for April 2021.

He is a former resident of Copenhagen, and he is a former journalist with Insight Magazine, Dublin.

He likes dogs, football and coffee. He enjoys observing and watching nature change for inspiration in writing.