Life
1958- ; b. Cork; son of a printer; ed. Scoil Chríost Rí,
Coláiste Chríost Rí and UCC; issued Cast in the
Fire (1986); winner of Patrick Kavanagh Award, 1987; appt.
lecturer, St. Michael’s College, Vermont, 1987; visiting poet at
the Robert Frost Place, New Hampshire, 1988; collections, Southward
(1992); American Wake (Belfast: Blackstaff 1994) [also Dufour Edn.],
poetry, on theme of emigration; also a new collection, The Hellbox
(1998), based on printing idiom inspired by his printer-father; living
and teaching in America; poetry collection, The Blind Stitch (2001);
issued The Ship of Birth (2003). OCIL
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Works
Southward (Dublin: Dedalus Press 1992), 4pp., poems. (Reviewed ILS,
Fall 1994); also anthology, Greg Delanty with Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill,
eds., Jumping Off Shadows (Cork UP 1995) [contrib. Paul Durcan,
Michael Davitt, Roz Cowman, Theo Dorgan, Seán Dunne, Eileán
Ní Chuilleanáin; Colm Breathnach, with intro. and trans.
of Irish poems]; American Wake: Poems (Belfast: Blackstaff 1995),
71[61]pp.; The Hellbox (Oxford Paperbacks 1998), 46pp. Also, pems
in Fortnight Review (Oct. 1996), p.39 ["The Cure", ded.
‘to my father’; "The Compositor"; "White Spirits";
"Mirror"]; "What is the Colour of Love", poem, in
Irish Times (19 Sept. 1998); The Blind Stitch (Manchester:
Carcanet 2001), 52pp.; The Blind Stitch [Oxford Poets] (Carcanet
2001), 52pp.; The Ship of Birth (Manchester: Carcanet 2003),
62pp.
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Criticism
Thomas B. O’Grady, review of Greg Delanty, Southward (1992),
ILS, Fall 1994, p.22.
Review of Southward (Dublin: Dedalus Press 1992), in Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 1994); Brian Lynch, review of The Hellbox (Gallery 1998), in Irish Times, 27 March 1999.
Patrick Crotty, review of The Blind Stitch (2001, The Irish Times, 23 June 2001, Weekend.)
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