See all those bright lights whizzing around in the sky-
they are only the stars throwing a party,
and the shaking you feel beneath you,
the shaking that jars your teeth and your bones-
that is only the way the earth dances,
Dave Lordan is an Irish writer, performer, and cultural and political activist, a crossover poet who combines excellence on the page and on the stage. He was born in England in 1975 to Irish parents, who soon returned to Clonakilty in West Cork where he grew up. He began writing in his teens and his chapbook -18- was published by the English literature society in University College Cork in 1994.