Michael Durack lives in Ballina, Co. Tipperary. His poems have appeared in publications such as The Blue Nib, Skylight 47, The Cafe Review, Drawn to the Light, The Milk House, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Stony Thursday Book, The Honest Ulsterman and Poetry Ireland Review, as well as airing on local and national radio. With his brother Austin, he has recorded two albums of poetry and guitar music, The Secret Chord (2013) and Going Gone (2015). He is the author of a memoir in prose and poems; Saved to Memory: Lost to View (2016) and three previous poetry collections, Where It Began (2017), Flip Sides (2020) and This Deluge of Words (2023) published by Revival Press.