Rob Buchanan is poet and journalist. By day, he works in an insurance company but by night he reads in open mic nights across Dublin, trying out new material in the scariest and most rewarding way possible and trying not to get barred in the process. He has had work published in The Stinging Fly, his verse narrative poem “Beds” was given a live reading in Draoicht Theatre and he has had several poems and short stories published in local newspapers and websites. He also writes a regular current affairs and arts column for several magazines and websites like The Outmost.Com, The Journal , GCN and EILE.
Rob Buchanan's latest work The Cost of Living charts the prices each of us pay in love and loss to be a part of the modern world. This collection of 69 poems illustrates human experience using the macrocosm of Irish history, literature and religion but also in the minutiae of love lives of working class men in Dublin's Northside.
Buchanan was one of the winners of 2015 Poetry Ireland Introductions series. He has been published in a number of poetry journals and magazines including The Stinging Fly. He performs his work at poetry nights across the country. He is also a freelance journalist, playwright , LGBT activist and is working on his first novel.