Karl Parkinson
Karl Parkinson is an Irish author based in Dublin. He has published three collections of poetry, a novel, and a short story collection.
Writing career
Parkinson has published three collections of poetry, Litany of the City and Butterflies of a Bad Summer. And Sacred Symphony. In March 2022 Parkinson published a jointly authored collection of poetry with Dave Lordan, Back To Normal . In July 2022 Front Line Press published Parkinson's first collection of short stories, The Grind.In 2016, New Binary Press published Parkinson's debut novel, The Blocks, inspired by the author's childhood in a troubled part of inner-city Dublin. The novel received considerable critical acclaim in Ireland. Aiden O'Reilly writes in The Irish Times that "Parkinson has set himself up unashamedly and without irony as a singer of the human soul in its contrary states of degradation and exaltation".