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David Wheatley (poet)
David Wheatley (born 1970) is an Ireland, Irish poet and critic. He was born in Dublin and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited ''Icarus (magazine), Icarus''. Wheatley is the author of four volumes of poetry with Gallery Press, as well as several chapbooks. He has also edited the work of James Clarence Mangan, and features in the Bloodaxe anthology ''The New Irish Poets'' (Bloodaxe, 2005), and the ''Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series Vol. 1'' (Wake Forest UP, 2005). He teaches at the University of Aberdeen, having previously taught at Hull. He has been shortlisted twice for the Poetry Now Award (2007, 2018), and was awarded The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, in 2008. Bibliography Poetry ;Collections * ''Thirst'' (Gallery Press, 1997) Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. *''Misery Hill'' (Gallery Press, 2000) *''Three-Legged Dog'' (with Caitriona o'reilly, Caitriona O'Reilly; Wild Honey Press, 2002) *''Mocker'' (Gallery Press, 2006) *''Architexts'' (with Cliff Forshaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland
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Faber And Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Milan Kundera, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Founded in 1929, in 2006 the company was named the KPMG Publisher of the Year. Faber and Faber Inc., formerly the American branch of the London company, was sold in 1998 to the Holtzbrinck company Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG). Faber and Faber ended the partnership with FSG in 2015 and began distributing its books directly in the United States. History Faber and Faber began as a firm in 1929, but originates in the Scientific Press, owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer. The Scientific Press derived much of its income from the weekly magazine ''The Nursing Mirror.'' The Gwyers' desire to expand into trade publishing led them to Geoffrey Fab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Bray, County Wicklow
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Irish Poets
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1970 Births
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Christopher Reid (writer)
Christopher John Reid, FRSL (born 13 May 1949) is a British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. In January 2010 he won the 2009 Costa Book Award for ''A Scattering'', written as a tribute to his late wife, the actress Lucinda Gane. Beside winning the poetry category, Reid became the first poet to take the overall Costa Book of the Year since Seamus Heaney in 1999. He had been nominated for Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997 (Costa Awards under their previous name). Biography Reid was born in Hong Kong. A contemporary of Martin Amis, he was educated at Tonbridge School and Exeter College, Oxford. He is an exponent of Martian poetry, which employs unusual metaphors to render everyday experiences and objects unfamiliar. He has worked as poetry editor at Faber and Faber and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull. Books *''Arcadia'' (1979) – 1980 Somerset Maugham Award, Hawthornden Prize *''Pea Soup'' (1982) *''Katerina Brac'' (1985) *''In The Echoey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
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Caitriona O'reilly
Caitríona O'Reilly (born 1973) is an Irish poet and critic. Life She earned BA and PhD degrees in Archaeology and English at Trinity College, Dublin, where she was awarded a PhD on American poetry, and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her poetry collection, ''The Nowhere Birds'' (2001, Bloodaxe); she has also held the Harper-Wood Studentship from St John's College, Cambridge. She is the co-author (with David Wheatley) of a chapbook, ''Three-Legged Dog'' (Wild Honey Press, 2002); her second collection, ''The Sea Cabinet'', followed in 2006. Her poetry can also be found in ''The Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series Vol.1''. She is a widely published critic, has written for BBC Radio 4, translated from the Galician of María do Cebreiro, and published some fiction. She was a contributing editor of the Irish poetry journal ''Metre''; she has collaborated with artist Isabel Nolan and in 2008 was named editor of ''Poetry Ireland Review''. A third collection, ''Geis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallery Press
Gallery Press is an independent Irish publishing company, publishing Irish poetry, drama, and prose by contemporary Irish writers. Founded by poet Peter Fallon as the Gallery Books imprint of Tara Telephone Publications, itself an offshoot of a beat poetry performance group, it has released more than 400 books by a wide range of artists. History Gallery Books began with the release on 6 February 1970 of ''Answers'' by Des O'Mahony and Justin McCarthy. Peter Fallon founded the press when he was eighteen years old and has been the editor and publisher for the life of the publisher. Gallery operated out of a family home in Dublin for many years but now works from a small 19th-century stone house and its adjacent outbuildings, in Loughcrew in the centre of North Meath. It has been described as the "leading poetry publisher in the Irish Republic". Notable writers published by the press *Sara Berkeley *Ciaran Carson * Michael Coady *Gerald Dawe * Eamon Grennan * Vona Groarke *B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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