Born in Dublin in 1942, Macdara Woods has published seventeen books, mainly poetry, as well as collaborating with graphic artists and with composers and performers on a number of CDs. His most recent collections are: Artichoke Wine, and a reprint of the 2000 Knowledge In The Blood: New and Selected Poems in 2007. He has read his work from Berkeley in California to the Gorki Institut and Moscow State University in Moscow.  Most recently he has read in Brazil, Argentina and Turkey. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. His next collection, The Cotard Dimension, is due out in 2011, and a Collected Poems is due for April 2012. He is also a founder-editor of the literary journal Cyphers and a member of Aosdána.