Richie McCaffery

Richie McCaffery is an English poet born in Newcastle who lived in Ghent, Belgium until 2018. He now resides in the UK in Northumberland. He was a 2011 Hawthornden fellow at Hawthornden Castle, a writer in residence at Brownsbank for the Biggar Trust and a recipient of a 2009 Edwin Morgan Travel Bursary. He was a guest poet at the 2019 Stanza Poetry Festival.

Life and works

McCaffery was born in Newcastle and grew up in Warkworth, Northumberland. Later he moved to Scotland where he completed a PhD in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of three poetry collections Summer / Break, Passport, Cairn. He has also written a handful of poetry pamphlets Spinning Plates, Ballast Flint, First Hare and Coping Stones. He edited Sydney Goodsir Smith: Essays on his life and work and Finishing the Picture: The Collected Poems of Ian Abbot, which was published by Kennedy & Boyd in 2015. He also co-edited, with Alistair Peebles The Tiny Talent: Selected Poems by Joan Ure which was published by Brae Editions in 2018.