Fergus Allen has had poems published sporadically throughout his adult life, but after his formal retirement he found himself writing much more actively. His first collection, The Brown Parrots of Providencia was published by Faber & Faber in 1993, and Who Goes There? and Mrs Power Looks Over the Bay followed in 1996 and 1999. He now lives with his wife (another Dubliner) in a village in Berkshire.
