MacDara Woods

Woods, MacDara (1942- ), poet. Born in Dublin and educated at Gonzaga College and UCD, he travelled in Europe and North Africa before settling in Dublin, where he founded the literary magazine Cyphers in 1975, and married Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin in 1978. He has published Decimal D. Sec Drinks in a Bar in Marrakesch (1970); Early Morning Matins (1972); Stopping the Lights in Ranelagh (1987); Miz Moon (1989); The Hanged Man Was Not Surrendering (1990); and The Country of Blood-Red Flowers (1993). His poems show a love of colour and the exotic including the hallucinatory and bizarre, with a strong satiric vein. He edited The Kilkenny Anthology in 1991.