Transpoesie - Poets

Born and raised in Lisbon, Rui Coias studied law at the University of Coimbra, and then returned to the capital where he worked as a lawyer for nine years before abandoning the profession. He currently studies philosophy at a university in Lisbon. His first book of poems, A Função do Geógrafo (The Function of the Geographer) was published in 2000, and his second, A Ordem do Mundo (The World’s Order), in 2005.