John Mee (born 1965)[1] is a Canadian-Irish poet[2] and law academic[3][4][5] currently (as of October 2021) lecturing at University College Cork.
[12][better source needed] As a law academic, Professor John Mee is a graduate of UCC (BCL 1986; LLM 1987), Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto (LLM 1989) and Trinity College Dublin (PhD 1997) and was called to the Irish Bar in 1990.
[13] Born in 1965,[14][15][16] Mee moved from Canada to Ireland aged 7, he began writing poetry in 1990.
He cites Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and Sinead Morrissey as his favourite poets.
[4][18] Fellow Cork-based poet Thomas McCarthy described Mee as possessing, 'A beautiful formality of language, a keen sense of irony, a consciousness of the music of history, all combine here in this rich work of poetry.