Law lives in West Ward, Carleton Place. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and emigrated to Canada in 1954. He has lived in the States, Bermuda, England and Ireland and has worked as a wire service journalist, radio newsman, TV reporter and member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, mainly in Montreal and Ottawa.

He served three stints in two NATO armed forces. His poetry appeared in small publications such as The Fiddlehead, Prism, Duel and a chapbook from Delta Press Montreal (under the tutelage of Michael Gnarowski), from the mid-60's to mid-70s, including one CBC reading, with Peter Desbarats. Then he disappeared from sight.

From the early 80's to early 2000s he sojourned in Ireland as a writer-in-exile, then surfaced in 2005 somewhere along Highway 7 (Ontario) and the lands to the North.

His poems focus on love and war, both of which avocations he usually manages to screw up. Influences - possibly Leonard Cohen, Seamus Heaney, Mebdh McGuckian, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Yeats and Eliot but love, loss, longing, death and dismemberment provide enough incentive on their own - without reference to other writers.

He re-emerged as a poet in early 2006 to read extensively in Ottawa and rural eastern Ontario (Cafe Merea, McDonalds Corners, Lanark County, Ontario; Sasquatch poetry group, Ottawa and Trees poetry group, Ottawa). He has also read at both Page & Turners and Read's bookshops in Carleton Place.

85 Crampton Drive, Carleton Place, ON, K7C 4P8 - 613-257-7714 - saycarl@aol.com