I'm Sean Kinsella
I'm a poet currently reading Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield. I was born in Greater London, to Irish parents from Dublin and Tipperary, but brought up in Swansea, although I now live in Chesterfield with my wife of 11 years, Susan. I graduated from the Universities of Swansea and Sheffield in 1991 and 2003 respectively and I've worked in the Prison Service, Land Registry, Royal Mail and a South Wales business regeneration agency.
My work has appeared in the following magazines:-
Fire, Carillon, Quantum Leap, Poetry Express, Rain Dog (set for December 2008), Poetry Cornwall (accepted for a future issue), The Poetry Church, The Black Rose, Areopagus, Rainbow News, Earth Love, Rubies in the Darkness, Miscellany and ATM.
I've had several submissions in printed provincial media and been featured on the BBC South Yorkshire website. In 2005, I read a selection of my work live on internet radio.
I've self-published the following chapbooks:-
'A Shilling for the King' (2004, revised 2007)
'Psalm and Sorrow' (2005)
'Truth from the Rooftops' (2008)
'A Walk in the Wilderness' (scheduled for early December of 2008)
My influences range from Dylan Thomas and Seamus Heaney to Philip Larkin and Sylvia Plath. My early work was metrical and inspired by the likes of Tennyson Gray and Wordsworth.
I'll post a selection of my published work on here and you can read it at your leisure.
Best Regards
Sean