Ben won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2022 for his manuscript ‘The Wireless Station’. He published, as editor, ‘Making Integral: Critical Essays on Richard Murphy’ with Cork University Press in 2019. His poems have appeared in the ‘Irish Times’, ‘Cyphers’, ‘The Dalhousie Review’, ‘Archipelago’ and in anthologies, most recently ‘Romance Options’ (Dedalus Press, 2022). He lives in Dublin.