Vincent Woods is a Leitrim-born poet, playwright and broadcaster. He presents 'Arts Tonight' on RTÉ Radio 1 and has presented arts and news programmes on radio over many years. His plays include 'At the Black Pig's Dyke', 'Song of the Yellow Bittern' and 'A Cry from Heaven', and have been produced by Druid Theatre Company and the Abbey Theatre. He has published two collections of poetry, 'The Colour of Language' and 'Lives and Miracles' and co-edited 'The Turning Wave: Poems and Songs of Irish-Australia'. He has also written a number of radio plays which have been broadcast on RTÉ radio.

He has written a number of song lyrics, some of them set to music by Mairtín O'Connor and Charlie McGettigan and recorded by Mary McPartlan and Charlie McGettigan. He has frequently performed with the uilleann piper Neillidh Mulligan and with other musicians including Maurice Lennon, Rick Epping, Aidan Brennan and with singers Susan McKeon, Mary McPartlan and Thom Moore.

Vincent's poetry is marked by a strong sense of rhythm and energy, a delight in the surreal, humorous and witty, and a subtle blending of storytelling and vivid observation. He is a masterful performer of his own work and has read his poems to audiences all around Ireland, and in Germany, Austria, France, Australia and the U.S.

He is completing a new collection of poetry and a new play for radio to be broadcast in March 2012. He lives in Dublin and is a member of Aosdána.