Biographical Note: Peter O’Neill Peter O' Neill ( 1967 ) was born in Cork and lived in France for the majority of the nineties, an engagement which persists through the French language, mainly by his works of transversion and translation with poets such as Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud. He is the author of six published full length collections of poetry: The Dark Pool and Divertimento the Muse is a Dominatrix both published by mgv2>publishing, in France: The Elm Tree, The Enemy – Transversions from Charles Baudelaire and Sker published by Lapwing in Belfast. Kilmog Press in New Zealand brought out Dublin Gothic in a limited hand-bound edition of 40 copies, in 2015. His academic background is in philosophy ( BA) and comparative literature ( MA), he studied both disciplines at Dublin City University. In 2015, with his publisher in France, the poet Walter Ruhlmann, he edited And Agamemnon Dead, an anthology of early 21st century Irish poetry. The anthology was launched at Donkey Shots, Skerries First International Avant Garde Poetry Festival in 2015. The majority of contributing poets read, including many poet- editors representing a wealth of independent poetry publishers in the Republic of Ireland. Including, Arthur Broomfield Outburst, Paul Casey Ó Bhéal, Christine Murray Poethead, Peadar O' Donoghue The Poetry Bus, and Colm Kearns The Runt. From this event sprang The Gladstone Readings, which he organised as an event for local poets to meet once a month alongside more established and internationally known writers and poets. In 2016, Fingal Arts made him the Writer in Residence at the Boathouse in Loughshinny. There he wrote mare nostrum published in parts in Levure Littéraire and A New Ulster. This book is concerned with the existence of an ancient Roman trading post at Drumanagh Promontory in the first century AD. 2017 sees the publication of his seventh book More Micks than Dicks, a hybrid Beckettian novella in three genres by Famous Seamus in the UK.
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