Karl Parkinson


Karl Parkinson is an Irish author based in Dublin. He has published two collections of poetry and a novel.

Writing career

Parkinson has published two collections of poetry, Litany of the City and Butterflies of a Bad Summer.
In 2016, New Binary Press published Parkinson's debut novel, The Blocks, inspired by the author's childhood in a troubled part of inner-city Dublin. The novel received considerable critical acclaim in Ireland. Aiden O'Reilly writes in The Irish Times that "Parkinson has set himself up unashamedly and without irony as a singer of the human soul in its contrary states of degradation and exaltation".

Personal

Parkinson grew up in O'Devaney Gardens, described as "one of Dublin’s most troubled and dilapidated complexes". The social housing flats in the area have since been vacated and demolished.