The Writers of Wales Database

CAFFREY, IDRIS

Idris Caffrey was born in the mid–Wales market town of Rhayader. He left Wales to find work at the age of twenty one and settled in Tamworth, Staffordshire, where he still lives today. Idris married and has four children. He started writing poetry relatively late in life, and has had work published in The North, Orbis, The Rialto and Acumen, as well as six collections to date. Idris is a Member of Academi.

Selected Publications:
Pacing Backwards (Feather Books, 1996)
Other Places (Original Plus, 1998)
Pathways (Feather Books, 1999)
Warm Rain (KT Publications, 2001)
Departures and Returns (Peer Poetry, 2003)
Relatively Unscathed (Cinnamon Press, 2007)
Selected Poems: Idris Caffrey (Original Plus, 2008)
Something About Snow (Prolebooks, 2012)

Contributed to:
Touch the Earth (co–writer) (Hilton House, 2001)

Something About Snow (Prolebooks, 2012)

Something About Snow is Idris Caffrey's seventh poetry collection, these 49 beautifully crafted and balanced poems are preceded by an introduction by singer-songwriter Ralph McTell and a foreword by eminent poet, Ruth Bidgood.
 
"Idris has that love of words that Dylan Thomas urged his readers to enjoy and in these beautifully observed writings, Idris reminds us of the richness of simpler things that at first glance can go unnoticed or evade our grasp and so easily slip through our fingers in our worldly hurry" - RalphMcTell