Benjamin Burns is a poet, sound artist, filmmaker, and performer from Sligo, who lives in Cork City. His work often engages with the non-human, reaching out towards or adopting the perspectives of animals, plant-life, and physical materials. He is a co-host of oNo NoNo improvised sound sessions, a co-director of the poetry event Ó Bhéal go Béal, and a co-curator of the experimental film event CineSalon. He is also a member of the art-noise trio Exotic Bùcket.

Benjamin was joint-winner of the All-Ireland Poetry Slam 2016, going on to represent Ireland in the 2017 European Poetry Slam in Brussels. His poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including: Hive Poetry Journal, Cork Words 2, and A Journey Called Home: poems and stories of the new Corkonians.

In 2024 Benjamin was the recipient of an Arts Council Agility Award for film. He also works as a sound designer, audio-visual designer, and artistic technical designer for film and theatre. Projects that he has worked on include: Wishful Thinking (Dublin Fringe Festival, 2019), The Sprawling Octopus of an Elevated Highway (Crawford Art Gallery, 2022), Gull (Dublin Fringe Festival, 2022), Tempestries (Dance Cork Firkin Crane, 2023), The Crow’s Old Gold (2025), and Constriction (Dublin Fringe Festival, 2025). He is a part-time technician for the Department of Theatre, UCC.

Benjamin has a H. Dip in Montessori Education, and spent five years working as a preschool teacher. In 2022 he completed an M.Phil. in Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College, Dublin.