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Life
1953- ; b. Lisgoold, Co. Cork; ed. St. Colman’s College, Fermoy, UCC (NUI) and McMaster University, Ontario; briefly taught at UCC; teaches at Imperial College and Goldsmiths College; issued A Word from the Loki (1995), poems, shortlisted for T. S. Eliot Prize; awarded Society of Authors’ travelling scholarship; issued Floods (2000), winner of Whitbread Prize; selected as one of the “Next Generation” poets by the Poetry Society, 2004; dir. of Tower Poetry; ed. of Poetry London, 2005; issued trans. of the Maltese poet Immanuel Mifsud in Confidential Reports (2005); a new collection, The Holy Land (2007), incorporating 18 “Idylls”;
issued The Holy Land (1007), winner of the Michael Hartnett Award;
lives in London; taught at Imperial and Goldsmith Colleges, London; appt. editor of Poetry London, and teaches at Sheffield Hallam
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Works
A Word form the Loki (London: Faber 1995), x, 50pp.; Floods (London: Faber & Faber 2000), 53pp.; trans., Immanuel Mifsud, Confidential Reports (Cork: Southword Edns. 2005), 63pp.; Maurice Riordan, The Holy Land (London: Faber & Faber 2007), 64pp. ded. to his father].
Miscellaneous, ed., with Jon Turney A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems About Science (London: Faber & Faber 2000), xiv, 208pp.; ed., with John Burnside, Wild Reckoning: An Anthology Provoked by Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2004), 254pp.; with Colm Breathnach, ed., The Best of Irish Poetry ( Southword Edns. 2006), q.pp.; Also, The Moon Has Written You a Poem, [children's stories] after José Letria [Portuguese] (2005).
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Criticism
James Scruton, review of A Word from the Loki, in Irish Literary
Supplement (Fall 1995), p.8; Fiona Sampson, review of The Holy Land, in The Irish Times (3 March 2007), Weekend, p.13 [‘a fine and serious book, which deserves a wide, non-specialist audience’].
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Commentary
Tim Dooley, review of A Word from the Loki, in Times
Literary Supplement, 26 May 1995, starting points are Ireland and
scenes from the dissolution of a marriage.
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References
Greg Delanty [with Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill], ed., Jumping
Off Shadows (Cork UP 1995), incls. poem[s].
Patrick Crotty, ed., Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1995), selects “Milk” [384]; “Time Out” [385]; “A Word from the Loki” [387].
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