Colin Dardis

Born at the tail end of the seventies in Northern Ireland, Colin Dardis is a poet, artist, and sometimes musician. He edits Speech Therapy, an online zine focusing on poetry from Ireland and beyond. He is also the founder of Purely Poetry, an open mike poetry night in Belfast.

Colin’s work has been previously in numerous anthologies, journals and zines in Ireland, the UK and the USA.

His poem 'Perhaps', won the EditRed.Com 2006 Writer’s Choice Award for Poetry.

Colin is a poet who displays hunger for understanding of himself and the world around him. His poetry and performances display an ever present sense of hope through times of love, sadness, death and joy, while sparkling with humour, honesty, modesty, and a touch of the absurd.

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