Born in Dublin, Ireland, Rody Gorman is Writer-in-Residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye. He has worked as writing fellow at the University College Cork and the University of Manitoba and is editor of the annual Irish and Scottish Gaelic poetry anthology An Guth. He has published a wide range of poetry collections in Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Beartan Briste is the latest collection from this prolific Gaelic poet. His highly original English intertongu-ings are wonderfully entertaining in their own right.