Dane Holt

Dane Holt’s debut poetry collection, Father’s Father’s Father, was published in 2025 by Carcanet and was a Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation. His pamphlet, Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire (Lifeboat Press) was a 2023 Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice. In 2018, he won the inaugural Brotherton Poetry Prize, awarded by the University of Leeds. His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry Review, Granta, The London Magazine, PN Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, and elsewhere.

He earned a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast and was the 2023 Ciaran Carson Publishing Fellow at The Seamus Heaney Centre. He is currently a Leverhulme Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin.