Dr Rody Gorman

Poet

Rody Gorman was born in Dublin in 1960 and lives in the Isle of Skye. He works as a writer, an editor, a translator and a lecturer. He has published collections of poetry in English, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, as detailed below. He has published collections of poetry in English, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, as detailed below. His most recent publications are Sa Chnoc (CLÀR Publishers), which was awarded the Derick Thompson Poetry Prize 2024, and Sweeney: An Intertonguing (Francis Boutle Publishers), which was shortlisted for the same award. His latest collection Wanderweg / Guth le Sruth (Boutle) is published in 2026. 

Rody has translated RoundView poems into Scottish Gaelic, and has worked with the team on developing our understanding of poetry as pedagogy and how multi-lingual poetry helps us to learn.