Iggy McGovern
Iggy McGovern was born in Coleraine and educated in Belfast. He has degrees in physics from Queen’s University, Belfast. He was Professor of Physics in Trinity College, Dublin until retirement in 2013. He is now Fellow Emeritus at Trinity. He has published three collections of poetry, The King of Suburbia and Safe House, both with Dedalus Press (www.dedaluspress.com), and A Mystic Dream of 4, with Quaternia Press; The King of Suburbia won the inaugural Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry. Other awards include the Hennessy Award for Poetry and The Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary. He has presented his poetry at writers’ festivals in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Australasia.