Life
1942- ; b. Tandragee; ed. QUB; issued First Letters Home (1965),
poetry; m. and lived in Dromore, Co. Down, working as schoolteacher; settled at Ballycastle with her dg. Kate; completed MPhil.
at UUC; issued several poetry collections incl. Circumcision (1994),
pamphlet; Coming of Age (1995); appeared at Bangor Heritage Celebration
of Irish Writers, 1994; Thin Ice (1998), poetry; currently lives
in Donegal; a principal of Summer Palace Press.
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Works
First Letters Home (QUB Fest. 1965), pamph.; Circumcision
(Belfast: Honest Ulsterman 1994), pamphlet; Coming of Age (Belfast:
Blackstaff Press 1995), 72pp.; Thin Ice (Newry: Abbey Press 1998),
28pp. [ltd. edn. 1,000]. Also “Inga”, “Van Morrison on
the Heartstrings”, “Ruby”, in Causeway, 1, 1 (Autumn
1993), pp.4, 52.
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Criticism
Christine St. Peter, ‘In Conversation with Joan and Kate Newmann:
Irish Poets and Publishers’, in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies/Revue
canadienne d’études irlandaises, Vol. 28, No.2 (Fall
2002/Vol. 29 No.1 (Spring 2003), pp.148-53.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)