A prize-winning Irish poet, his books include The Georgics of Virgil (Oxford World’s Classics), The Company of Horses and Strong, My Love. Recent poems have appeared in The Guardian (England) and The New York Times. At the age of eighteen he founded The Gallery Press, Ireland’s leading literary publishing company, and over forty-six years he has edited and published five hundred books of poems and plays by the country's finest established and emerging authors. He is currently editing the five-volume Collected Plays of Brian Friel.

'One of Ireland's greatest literary talents' - The Sunday Times, London

‘Care, company, community have been fundamental concerns of Peter Fallon’s writing in and about the world, care for people and place, for planet earth and the poetry of earth . . . and the seriousness of that caretaking has developed over the years to a point where the artistic and moral have converged.’