Accepting the Call

Accepting the Call by Tim Dwyer

Winner of the Templar Straid Collection Award 2024

Tim Dwyer’s poems open into immediate verse:  realised chronicles of lived experience set at street level, or as the poet puts it: ‘we have two lives: / one we learn from, / one we live’.

                                                                                    Patrick Deeley, Keepsake

Tim Dwyer’s voice is assured, strong. always original.

                                                                                    Enda Coyle-Greene, Indigo Electric Baby

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Tim Dwyer was raised in Brooklyn, and lives in Bangor, Northern Ireland. His debut collection reflects on a life lived in a fragmented world, a profound longing and a sense of location and dual identity. The poet’s diaspora inhabits two continents; growing up in New York in an immigrant family, psychological work in prisons, life with cancer, and his reverse migration to Ireland. 

 Tim Dwyer’s poems appear in Irish, UK and international journals. His previous chapbook is Smithy of Our Longings (2015, Lapwing).

A flock of geese flies south-west

and yellow leaves appear

on the sumacs, pioneer trees

that grow anywhere—

                                    from ‘Sumac’

Listen to poems from the collection below

FAR ENOUGH INTO SPRING | THE LAST PLACE IN AMERICA | ACCEPTING THE CALL

BIOPSY RESULTS | WAYFARING THROUGH BANGOR | GLIMMER