His debut collection is home more or less (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2012).
His chapbook of longer poems is It’s Not all Bad (Coventry, Heaventree Press, 2009)
In October 2010 his poetry-film The Lammas Hireling, after the poem by Ian Duhig, premièred at the Zebra poetry-film festival in Berlin and has been screened at StanZa in Edinburgh and Sadho in New Delhi.
He grew up in various stages between Ireland, Zambia and South Africa, working mostly in film, multimedia and teaching. He lectured screen writing at the Nelson Mandela University, where he convened the greater Port Elizabeth Poetry Competition in three languages and four age groups.
He is the founder and organiser of the Ó Bhéal reading series in Cork, where he lives.
Uploaded by OBheal on 27 Nov 2008
Performed at the ‘In Sight of Raftery’ festival Slam, in the Park Hotel, Kiltimagh, Mayo, Ireland, 22nd of November 2008.
The Lammas Hireling from Paul Casey on Vimeo.