Anthony Wade, London-born, raised by a deserted migrant Irish mother; knew poverty and prejudice. Thankfully, education, available and firmly grasped, brought university and a profession. Worked long in The Netherlands before a medical disability eventually brought him Home to his Mother’s county of Cork close to where he had spent childhood summers. He joined the local writers’ group in 2016, published his first poem in 2018, now a Forward Prize nominee with poetry published in print in Ireland, across Britain, India, Spain, the USA, and Canada, and more widely online. He can’t stop writing poetry.