Life
1953- ?; b. Belfast [Ruth Hooley]; raised independently of Protestant
or Catholic traditions in N. Ireland; ed. QUB (English); University of
Ulster MA on Janet McNeill; poetry in Poetry Ireland Review, no.
11 (1984); Fortnight; The Belfast Review; contrib. and ed.,
The Female Line (NI Women Writers 1985); ed., with Grainne Tobin,
Sally Wheeler, and Ann Zell, Word of Mouth: Poems (Belfast: Blackstaff
1996), pp.118, ‘a celebration of women’s voices’.
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Works
Ruth Carr, Gráinne Tobin, Sally Wheeler, and Ann Zell, eds., Word
of Mouth: Poems (Blackstaff 1996), pp.118, ‘a celebration of
women’s voices’ [Pref.], incl. poems by Carr, Margaret Curran,
Elaine Gaston, Pia Gore, Ann McKay, Eilish Martin, Joan Newmann, Kate
Newmann, Tobin, Mary Twomey, Sally Wheeler, and Zell. Acknowledgement
makes thanks to Linen Hall Library on behalf of Word of Mouth Collective;
also Downtown Women’s Centre and Women’s News for computer facilities;
Arts Council (NI); NI Voluntary Trusts, and Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig.
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Criticism
Interview in Rebecca E. Wilson, and Gillian Somerville-Arjat, [interviews
and] eds., Sleeping with Monsters: conversations with Scottish and
Irish women poets (Wolfhound 1990), pp.165-72 [incl. poems, ‘My
Mother’s House’; ‘Cut the Cake’].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)