Richard Alexander Kell (1 November 1927 – January or February 2023) was an Irish poet, composer and teacher.
Kell was born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland, on 1 November 1927,[1][2] as the second of a Methodist missionary's four children.
After early years in India he was educated mainly in Belfast and Dublin, where he graduated from Trinity College.
[3] Kell began writing poetry at the age of ten, and at eighteen achieved newspaper publication with his now widely known poem 'Pigeons'.
Since then his work has appeared in magazines, anthologies, and sixteen solo collections large and small (see bibliography).