Peter Sirr was born in 1960 and lives in Dublin where he works as a freelance writer and translator.

The Gallery Press has also published Marginal Zones (1984), Talk, Talk (1987), Ways of Falling (1991), The Ledger of Fruitful Exchange (1995), Bring Everything (2000), Selected Poems and Nonetheless (both 2004). He is a member of Aosdána.

His new collection The Thing Is will be published in September 2009.