Moya Cannon

Life
1965- ; b. Dunfanaghy, Co Donegal; ed. UCD, grad. in history and politics; proceeded to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; issued Oar (1990), based on landscapes of the Burren and Co. Galway; winner of Brendan Behan award for a first collection; ed. Poetry Ireland Review; Oar (1991); writer-in-residence, Trent University, Ontario, 1994-95; issued The Parchment Boat (1998), a second collection; broadcasts on RTÉ radio and TV and on BBC Radio 4; lives in Galway; teaches at a school for the traveller children.

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Works
Oar (Salmon Poetry 1991), q.pp.; The Parchment Boat (Dublin: Gallery Press 1998), 48pp.

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Notes
Webpage at www.rte.ie/culture/millennia/people/cannonmoya.html.

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