His poetry has been published widely in journals and anthologies. He won the Jonathan Swift Poetry Award in 2014, the Bailieborough Poetry Prize in 2015 and the Galway RCC Poetry Award in 2016. He was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2013 and was highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2014 and 2015. His first collection is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in early 2017. He is a member of the Hibernian Writers Workshop and he blogs at www.briankirkwriter.com