Richie McCaffery
Richie McCaffery is an English poet who lived in Ghent, Belgium until 2018. He now resides in the UK in Alnwick, Northumberland. He was a 2011 Hawthornden fellow at Hawthornden Castle, a writer in residence at Brownsbank for the Biggar Trust and a recipient of a 2009 Edwin Morgan Travel Bursary. He was a guest poet at the 2019 Stanza Poetry Festival.Life and works
Richie was born in Warkworth, Northumberland. Later he moved to Scotland where he completed a PhD in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Passport and Cairn, both from Nine Arches Press, Spinning Plates and Ballast Flint. As an editor he edited Finishing the Picture: The Collected Poems of Ian Abbot, which was published by Kennedy & Boyd in 2015. He also co-edited, with Alistair Peebles The Tiny Talent: Selected Poems by Joan Ure which was published by Brae Editions in 2018.
