Location: Ireland
Member Since:
Nov. 10, 2020
Ron Carey
Biography
Ron Carey was born in Limerick and lives in Dublin. He is a poet and a creative writing facilitator. Ron only started writing poetry seriously in his sixties. Since then he has been a prize winner and finalist in many international poetry competitions. He received Special Commendation in the Patrick Kavanagh Awards. He has a Diploma in Creative Writing from the Open University and was awarded a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of South Wales. His poetry collection DISTANCE was a shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection UK and Ireland 2016. His second book of poetry Racing Down the Sun (Revival Press) was launched in 2018. Since 2016 he has been running creative writing courses in Limerick and Dublin.
Books
Songs for Older Life
by Ron Carey
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 15,470.
Language:
English (Irish dialect).
Published: April 4, 2023
by
Limerick Writers Centre.
Categories:
Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
In Songs for Older Life, Ron Carey celebrates some creative individuals who blossomed in the afternoons, twilights and late evenings of their lives. Some of these are very famous, others are not so . You will discover in their stories an endless source of encouragement and want to find out more about them. In highlighting each individual, Ron has written a poem inspired by their story.
Write on the Edge
by Ron Carey
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 16,420.
Language:
English (Irish dialect).
Published: November 16, 2022
by
Limerick Writers Centre.
Categories:
Poetry » Contemporary Poetry, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author
Stories and poems from The Limerick Writers’ Centre Creative Writing Course 2022
Writers Unmasked
by Ron Carey
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Language:
English.
Published: November 10, 2020
by
Limerick Writers Centre.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » General
Within these pages you will find the beautiful and the magical, the strange and the wonderful, and all brought to you without an agenda or a political program. Some of the submissions to this Anthology reflect the times we live in, others deal with the universal lot of us all, loss and love, loneliness, and gratitude.