Life
1973- [Alan A. Gillis] b. Belfast, brought up in Newtownards; ed. TCD (English), and QUB, MA & PhD; co-directed “New Voices” PG Conference with Aaron Kelly, Belfast 2000; appt.
Research Fellow of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the School of English, Queen’s University Belfast; issued
Somebody, Somewhere (2004), poetry collection, short-listed for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award; issued
Irish Poetry of the 1930s (2005), criticism; m., with one child; currently lectures at University of Ulster; researching the British and Irish influence of Wallace Stevens.
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Works
Poetry, Somebody, Somewhere (Gallery Press 2004), 62pp. Criticism, Irish Poetry of the 1930s (OUP 2005), 220pp. [due Aug. 15.]
Miscellaneous, with Aaron Kelly, eds., Critical Ireland: New Essays in Literature and Culture [New Voices Conference, Belfast] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), xviii, 221pp.
Contribs., three poems in “Poetry Matters”, at the Tower Poetry website (Dec 2004) [link or copy].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)