Kerry Hardie was born in Singapore in 1951, and lived in Bangor, County Down and was educated in the University of York.
She has won a wide number of poetry awards and scholarships and residencies have taken her to countries including Australia, France and China.
; 2011) ‘Hardie’s poetry is brave, steadily confronting both the deaths of her loved ones and her own experiences with illness as an ME sufferer.
Poems and lives move through the unstoppable clockwork of seasons in her collections… A unique aspect of Hardie’s poetry is the hope that is present in all her collections.
She guides us through tragedy, reassuring us but never romanticising the true nature of life.’ This article about an Irish writer or poet is a stub.