Noel
King was born and lives in Tralee, Co Kerry,
Ireland. In 2015 he reached his 1000th
publication of a poem, haiku or short story in
magazines and journals in thirty-eight
countries. Along the way he has been a singer
with the famous Bunratty Castle Entertainers and
has worked as an arts administrator and poetry
editor.
He
has edited more than fifty books of work by
others and was poetry editor of Revival
Literary Journal (Limerick Writers'
Centre) in 2012/13. Anthology publications
include The Second Genesis: An Anthology of
Contemporary World Poetry (AR.A.W.,India,
2014).
His
poetry collections are published by Salmon: Prophesying
the Past (2010), The
Stern
Wave (2013) and Sons
(2015).
His
poems have been translated into
Russian and other European languages.
He
has been a prizewinner in the William Allingham
Short Story Competition. In 2011 he was
shortlisted for the Gregory O'Donoghue
International Poetry Prize.
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