Life
1956- ; b. San Francisco, brought up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode
Island; ed. Andover, Harvard and Université d’Aix-en-Provence,
with degrees in English; teaches Open Univ., moved to Northern Ireland
in 1978, living in Belfast; m. Nóirín McKinney; Board of
Directors of Poetry Ireland, chosen [with another]
by Irish Writers’ Centre to represent Ireland in Russian exchange;
ed. Special North American Issue of Poetry Ireland; short-listed
for Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize (US) for own collection, In the New
Hampshire Woods (1992); ed. Irish Double Issue of Poetry (Chicago
1995); ed. ‘American Issue’ of Metre (Spring 2000); edits
Irish Pages: Journal of Contemporary Writing (from 2002), in Belfast.
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Works
Published poems, “In the New Hampshire Woods”, Poetry
Ireland Review (Spring 1989), pp.8-9 [poem in 12 parts], rep. as In
the New Hampshire Woods (1992), infra; “Tidelands”, Poetry
Ireland Review (Spring 1992), pp.100-01 [a poem in 9 short parts];
“Old Sarajevo”, in Ken Smith and Judi Benson, eds., Klaonica,
Poems for Bosnia (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1993), p.56; “Turas”,
Studies, Vol. 82, No. 328 (Winter 1993), p.383; “New
Poems”, Éire-Ireland, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer 1994),
pp.42-50 [ “Turas”; “Seán MacBride, 1903-1988”;
“Old Sarajevo”; “Mandelstam”; “At Six”;
“Peredelkino”; “Flag-Irish”; “The Sierra de Zacatecas”;
“Low Tide on Trá na Rossan”]. Also “Occam’s
Rime”, poems, in Times Literary Supplement (16 Feb. 2001), p.6.
Collections, In the New Hampshire Woods (Dublin: Dedalus 1992); The Sierra de Zacatecas/ha Sierra de Zacatas [Editiones Popeles Privados] (Mexico City 1995), 22pp., ill. by Alfonso Lopez Monreal [cover]; First Light (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2003), 96pp.
Miscellaneous, ed., Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia, [literal trans. Antonela Glavinic and Igor Klikovac] (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1998), 208pp.; “At Bethlehem Nursery: In memoriam Miariam Aoife Agee, 1997-2001”, a poem, in Times Literary Supplement (23 Aug. 2002) [infra]; “Miracle Story”, in SHR [Southern Humanities Review] (Winter 2004) [story].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)