Life
1947- ; b. in Dublin, and raised in Mary St.; spent summers in Galway Gaeltacht; ed. UCD (Philosophy and English); co-fnd. New Irish Writers Press, with Michael
Smith, 1967; ed. Lace Curtain, with Smith; issued poetry collections, Sole Gum Trek (1967); Watches (1969); Pentahedron (1972); The Poems of Sweeney
Peregrine (1976); conducted classes on classical Chinese poetry in Dublin and Oxford; visited China by invitation in the 1983; settled in Cork with partner Patricia Coughlan; studied Mathematical Sciences, NUI Cork; spent 12 years as Systems Analyst with Apple, Cork; became full-time writer, 2000; returned to print after 19 years silence with Stone Floods (New Writers’ Press, 1995), nominated for The Irish Times Poetry Prize; fnd. and dir. Cork International Poetry Festival, 1997- ; received Irish Arts Council Litrature Bursary, 2001; Writer in Residence, NUI Galway, 2001-02; and a Fulbright Scholarship, 2002-03; elected to Aosdána, 2004; co-owner of British and Irish Poets electronic list [listserv]; lives in Cork. DIW DIL
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Works
Poetry, Sole Glum Trek [New Irish Poets] (Dublin:
New Writer’s Press 1967), 30pp. ; Watches (Dublin: New Writer’s
Press 1969), 16pp.; Pentahedron (New Writers’ Press 1972),
[2], 53, [1]pp; The Poems of Sweeney Peregrine (Dublin: New Writer’s
Press 1976); stone floods (Dublin: New Writers’ Press 1995),
52pp.; With the First Dream of Fire They Hunt the Cold: A Body of Work
1966-2000 (Dublin: New Writers’ Press/Shearman Books 2001), 243pp.
Also, ed., Brian Coffey, Versheet 1 (Dublin: : New Writers’
Press 1971), 6pp. [ltd. edn. 500]; ed., Robert Pawlowski, Versheet
2 (Dublin: New Writers’ Press 1971), 6pp.
Pamphlets, Hellbox (London: Form Books 1998); Syzygy (Wicklow: Wild Honey Press 1998), 16pp., ill., Joe Ben [cover]; Without Asylum (Wicklow: Wild Honey Press 1999), 16pp., ill by author [cover]; Hopeful Monsters (Wicklow: Wild Honey Press 1999. Audio-CD, Red Noise of Bones (Coelocanth & Wild Honey Press 2001).
Miscellaneous, ed., with James Liddy, Homage to Patrick Kavanagh (Dublin: New Writers’ Press 1971), 6pp. [500 copies]; ed. with Michael Smith, The Lace Curtain: A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism (Dublin: New Writers’ Press 1970-1974); Trevor Joyce, The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine: A Working of the Corrupt Irish Text [ed. Michael Smith] (Dublin: New Writers’ Press 1976), [50]pp.; “The New Writers’ Press”, in Patricia Coughlan & Alex Davis, eds., Modernism in Ireland: the Poetry of the 1930s (Cork UP 1995); Hellbox [Series: formSheet no. 5] (London Form Books, 1998), 1 sh. [ltd. edn. 50 copies]
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Criticism
Hugh McFadden, review of Stone Floods (1996), Irish Times,
11 Dec. 1995 [q.d.].
Michael Smith ‘The Contemporary Situation in Irish Poetry’, in Douglas Dunn, ed., Two Decades of Irish Writing (1975). Noticed in Books Ireland (Oct. 1995), p.260.
David Lloyd, ‘An Impressive collection’, review of Trevor Joyce, With the First Dream of Fire they Hunt the Cold: A Body of Work 1966-2000 (New writers’ Press/Shearman Books), 243pp., in The Irish Times, 18 Sept. 2001, p.10.
Internet, homepage at Soundeye [online]. Also, full text of “Without Asylum” [online with audio; as text only [link].
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Notes
Robert Hogan, ed., Dictionary of Irish Literature (Dublin:
Gill & Macmillan 1979): Hogan berates him and includes him largely for
the satisfaction of so doing; cites Pentahedron (1977).
Brian Cleeve & Anne Brady, A Dictionary of Irish Writers (Dublin: Lilliput 1985), lists The Poems of Sweeney the Peregrine, deriv. Buile Suibhne (1976).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)