Chris Burke is an English-Irish writer and journalist whose debut collection of poetry, The Noise of Everything at Once, was published by Happy House Books in 2017. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in magazines including Antiphon, Southword, the French Literary Review, Snakeskin, Paris Lit Up and Prole, and he recently won the second prize in the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition, having also featured on the UK National Poetry Competition longlist.

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