No Other Life was the joint winner of the Brian Dempsey Prize in 2023.
Mandy Pannett, who judged the competition, had this to say about the collection:
The poem ‘Making Safe’ introduces the idea of words finding their own way and ‘letting them say themselves’ and this is another quality I love. Throughout, the images are striking, symbolic and associative, leaving space for readers to add their own interpretations and thoughts. For me, the poems convey a sense of vision – a tentative, exploratory, shared vision, the need ‘to mend the desecrated world and the people breathing through it.”