James Finnegan
James Finnegan: was the second–prize winner in the 2022 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition. A sonnet, ‘The Weather–Beaten Scarecrow’, was published in The Irish Times in August, 2021. He taught in St. Eunan’s College for thirty–three years and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Living Educational Theory from the University of Bath. He has had poems published with The Rainbow Poetry News (2008), North West Words (2015), Poets Meet Politics (2015). In August 2012, he self–published a poetry book, The Expressive Mode, with CreateSpace, owned by Amazon.