Patrick Lodge was born in Wales, lives in Yorkshire and travels on an Irish passport. His poetry has been published, anthologised and translated in several countries including India, Australia, the USA and Vietnam. Recent competition successes include a commendation in the 2018 Gregory O’Donoghue International Competition, plus shortlistings for the 2018 Leeds Poetry Peace Prize, the inaugural Trim Poetry Prize in 2019, and the Poetry On The Lake competition 2019. He won the Red House Poets/Blackwater poetry competition, 2019. He has read by invitation at poetry festivals and events in the UK, Ireland, Orkney, Kosovo and Italy.
His first collection An Anniversary of Flight was published by Valley Press in 2013. His second, Shenanigans, followed in 2016, and a third, Remarkable Occurrences, in 2019.
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