His poems are collected as The White Battlefield of Silence (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1999).
He has also published the schools anthology Inklings (Dublin, CJ Fallon, 1999).
He was short-listed for the Hennessy Prize, and won the Scottish International Poetry Prize along with two Hawthornden Awards.
He was awarded the Anglo-Irish scholarship for his Masters research on James Clarence Mangan, and at Oxford, he was awarded the British Council Millennium Scholarship for his doctorate on Irish poetry.
A close collaborator of Hollywood story coach Robert McKee, as well as being a poet and dramatist he currently works as a freelance writer in Europe.
Orpheus in Auschwitz, by James McCabe
James McCabe at The National Library of Ireland