Life
1951- ; b. Singapore; grew up in Co. Down; suffered from ME virus (so-called
Legionnaire’s disease); issued In Sickness: Poems (1995),
an Honest Ulsterman pamphlet; twice winner of Women’s National
Poetry Prize, as well as ASRvon, Cardiff, Peterloo and Hennessy Awards;
issued A Furious Place (1996); ed., with Mark Roper, Ink Bottle:
New Writing from Kilkenny (2001), for Kilkenny County Council; lives
in Co. Kilkenny; issued The Sky Didn’t Fall (2003), set in
Achill and Switzerland.
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Works
Poetry, In Sickness: Poems (Belfast: Honest Ulsterman
Publ. 1995), 17pp.; A Furious Place (Dublin: Gallery 1996), 56pp.;
Cry for the Hot Belly (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 60pp.; The
Sky Didn’t Fall (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 64pp.
Fiction, Hannie Bennet’s Winter Marriage (London: HarperCollins 2000), 410pp.
Miscellaneous, ed., with Mark Roper, Ink Bottle: New Writing from Kilkenny (Kilkenny Co. Council 2001), 120pp. [incls. Gillian Somerville-Large, Edward Power, Carmel Cummins, Brian Phelan].
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Criticism
Selina Guinness, reviewing Cry for the Hot Belly, in The
Irish Times (8 July 2000).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)