and movies. He writes for literary journals such as Studi Irlandesi . His work has been translated into several languages. He was one of the Irish delegates at the European Writers Conference in Istanbul in 2010. Critical response to his work Described by writer Kate Atkinson as "lyrical and cruel and bold and with metaphors to die for", critics have focused on Wall's mastery of language, his gift for "linguistic compression", his "poet's gift for apposite, wry observation, dialogue and character", his "unflinching frankness" and his "laser-like ... dissection of human frailties", which is counterbalanced by "the depth of feeling that Wall invests in his work". A New Yorker review of his first novel declares "Wall, who is also a poet, writes prose so charged—at once lyrical and syncopated—that it's as if Cavafy had decided to write about a violent Irish household". In a recent review, his long poem "Job in Heathrow", anthologised in The Forward Book of Poetry 2010 but originally published in The SHOp, was described as "a chilling airport dystopia". Poet Fred Johnston suggests that Wall's poetry sets out to "list the shelves of disillusion under which a thinking man can be buried". "His apocalyptic vision of the ecological demise of our planet is suffused with humility and resignation where the global catastrophe is transformed “into a universal truth / the days are shorter / today than yesterday”", according to Borbála Faragó. For Philip Coleman "Ghost Estate is a deeply political book, but it also articulates a profound interest in and engagement with questions of aesthetics and poetics". Personal life Wall is a longtime sufferer from Still's disease and described his efforts to circumvent the disabling effects of the disease using speech-to-text applications as "a battle between me and the software". Publications Novels La Ballata del Letto Vuoto (Nutrimenti, Rome – 2022) Suzy Suzy (Head of Zeus, London – 2019, TBD) Grace's Day (Head of Zeus, London – 2018, TBD) This Is The Country (Sceptre, London – 2005, TBD) The Map of Tenderness (Sceptre, London – 2002) Minding Children (Sceptre, London – 2001) Alice Falling (Sceptre, London, and WW Norton, New York – 2000) Poetry Smugglers In The Underground Hug Trade (Doire Press, Galway, Ireland – 2021) The Yellow House (Salmon Poetry, Cliffs of Moher, Ireland – 2018) Ghost Estate (Salmon Poetry, Cliffs of Moher, Ireland – 2011) Fahrenheit Says Nothing To Me (Dedalus Press, Dublin, Ireland