Steve Denehan lives in Kildare, Ireland with his wife, Eimear, and daughter, Robin. He is the author of two chapbooks and six poetry collections. Winner of the Anthony Cronin Poetry Award and twice winner of Irish Times’ New Irish Writing, his numerous publication credits include Poetry Ireland Review and Westerly.
Taillights Disappearing
Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote that hell is other people, but Steve Denehan really knows (perhaps even better than said Frenchman) the extent of that truism. And he details precisely why in a robust array of poems sprawled out across this searing, seething and always smile-inducing collection. Of course, it’s not all misanthropy and eye-rolling in Taillights Disappearing, for, like most cynics, Denehan is, somewhere deep down, a sentimentalist at heart.
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