Keith Mac an fhigheadair

Keith Mac an fhigheadair aka Keith MacNider (6/24-4/20/24). "The poetry of Keith MacNider is like a ground spring, rising from deep within and lifting the reader to the airy grace of rivers, trees, stones, clouds, and to our human connection to the past and to the land. As a boy in Hong Kong, Keith spent hours lying in grassy fields, looking at the clouds - thinking, and listening to the language of the natural world.  Keith's quests for natural beauty and ethereal knowledge have taken him to the green hills of Connemara in Ireland, the rocky and holy paths of the Navajo people in Arizona, to England, Canada, Hawaii and Australia." - Jude Aquilina

Keith’s first and only volume of poetry Connemara Greening was published in 2022.

Keith was a fellow student of Kim Rosen’s. Recently we lost this kind and poetic man.

River Language

Where the river mellows into lake

your words carry song born

from so far away and yet so much

of here. What was it so be from

so many places, countries far

and wide, to find your words

surfacing right here in the lake

as if called up by the moon?

— Keith Mac an fhigheadair