Gerry Boland is a poet, an author, a teacher, and an animal rights and vegan lifestyle advocate/campaigner. He has published three books of poetry (Watching Clouds; In the Space Between; All That Jazz), a collection of short stories (The Far Side of Happiness), a trilogy of storybooks for the young reader (Marco Moves In; Marco Master of Disguise; Marco Moonwalker), a book of poems for the young reader (The Secret Lives of Mothers), and two travel books on his native city (A Pocket Guide to Dublin; Strollers Guide to Dublin). The Deepest Feeling is his eleventh book and his first entirely devoted to the theme of animal rights and compassion.