Ron Carey

Ron Carey is a poet whose work is published by Clare Songbirds Publishing House. His 2025 collection, A Storm in Arcadia, was launched in Dublin. His debut, Distance (2015), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in the UK and Ireland. Critic Maurice Devitt, who launched A Storm in Arcadia, praised the collection's blend of myth, memory and family love. Carey's poetry is described as moving between past and present and between imagined and everyday worlds.