‘Poetry Across The Generations’ Chris & Jacob Agee

With father and son poets Chris and Jacob Agee.

Chris Agee’s third collection of poems, Next to Nothing (Salt, 2009), was shortlisted for the 2010 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, organised by the Poetry Society in London. He is the editor of Irish Pages, Ireland’s premier literary journal. His next collection of poems Blue Sandbar Moon, is forthcoming.

Jacob Agee’s poetry has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review (edited by the poet John F Deane), the Trinity College Dublin literary journal Icarus and Agenda. He has maternal family roots in Armagh and now divides his time between Ireland and Croatia. Both poets have strong family connections to Armagh.