Life
1952- ; Director of Listowel Writers’ Conference; collections include
Ag Síobshiúl chun an Rince (1995), The Village Sings
(1996), and Giolla na Amhrán (1998); also collected
poems as A Wren-boy’s Carnival (2001), introduced by Declan
Kiberd; editions incl. Irish Poetry Now: Other Voices (1993), Poems
I Wish I’d Written: Translations from the Irish (1996); issued
translations in Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Homecoming/An Bealach
na Baile (1993); also I and the Village (2002), a new collection
with title based on painting of Marc Chagall.
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Works
Poetry, Ag Síobshiúl
chun an Rince (Coiscéim 1995), 31pp.; The Village Sings
(Cló Iar-Chonnachta 1996), 82pp.; Do. [rep. edn.] (Cornwall:
Peterloo Poets; US: Storyline 1996), 96pp.; Giolla na Amhrán
(Coiscéim 1998), 47pp.; Kerry on My Mind: Of Poets, Pedagogues
and Place (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Press 1999), 83pp.; A Wren-boy’s
Carnival: Poems 1980-2000, intro. by Declan Kiberd (Dublin: Wolfhound
Press 2001), 144pp.; I and the Village (Dublin: Marino 2002), 160pp.;
I and the Village (Dublin: Marino 2002), 78pp.
Miscellaneous, with Declan Kiberd, ed., An Crann faoi Bláth/The Flowering Tree (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1989); ed., Irish Poetry Now: Other Voices (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1993), 240pp [140 poems by 60 poets, Irish ones also trans.]; ed., Poems I Wish I’d Written: Translations from the Irish (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 1996), 131pp. [incl. Raftery, Ó Díreáin; Ó Tuarisc; Mac an tSaoi; Cáitlín Maude; Harnett; Davitt; Rosenstock; Ní Ghlinn; Ó Searcaigh]; contrib. translations to Cathal Ó Searcaigh in Homecoming/An Bealach na Baile (1993); Poems from the Irish (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 192pp.
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Criticism
Fred Johnston, reviews I and the Village (Marino), in Books
Ireland (Feb. 2003).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)