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HardPressed Poetry
hardPressed poetry was an independent Irish-based poetry publisher run by poets Billy Mills and Catherine Walsh. With the exception of the Irish Arts Council funded magazine, ''the Journal'', they published without outside funding or sponsorship. Founded in 1985, hardPressed poetry operated from Dublin, Barcelona, Eastbourne and Limerick they described themselves as "a small press which publishes poetry that you won't often find in your local bookshop" ''the Journal'' had two issues, one in 1999, and one in 2000. Published poets They published work by Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Michael Carlson, Carlota Caulfield, Linda Chown, Brian Coffey, Cid Corman, Theodore Enslin, Matthew Geden, Harry Gilonis, Peter Gizzi, Robert Hampson, Randolph Healy, Fanny Howe, Trevor Joyce, David Lloyd, Sheila Mannix, David Miller, Jordi Valls i Pozo, Tom Raworth, Maurice Scully, Geoffrey Squires, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Craig Watson, and Augustus Young Augustus Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Mills (poet)
Billy Mills (born 1954) is an Irish experimental poet. He was born in Dublin, and lived in Barcelona from 1986 to 1989, after which he taught English in Eastbourne. He lives in Limerick. Mills is the founder and co-editor (with poet Catherine Walsh) of the hardPressed poetry imprint and ''the Journal''. The goal of hardPressed poetry is to publish and distribute mainly Irish poetry "that you won't often find in your local bookshop". He is a regular contributor of articles on ''The Guardian'' newspaper's book blog. Works *''Genesis and Home'' (hardPressed poetry, 1985) *''On First Looking into Lorine Niedecker'' (hardPressed poetry, 1986) *''A Small Love Song'' (Red Wheelbarrow Press, 1986 - folded broadsheet) *''Triple Helix'' (hardPressed poetry, 1987) *''Letters from Barcelona'' (Dedalus, 1990) *''Properties Of Stone'' (Writers Forum, London, 1996) *''5 Easy Pieces'' (Shearsman, Plymouth, 1997) *''Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gizzi
Peter Gizzi (born 1959 in Alma, Michigan) is an American poet, essayist, editor and teacher. He attended New York University, Brown University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Life Gizzi was born in Alma, Michigan to an Italian American family. He spent most of his childhood and adolescence in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. After graduating from high school, the poet delayed going to college and took a job in a factory winding resin tubes and in a residential treatment center working with emotionally disturbed adolescents. Working overnight at the treatment center, Gizzi read George Oppen's ''Collected Poems'', along with H.D., Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Federico GarcÃa Lorca, Baudelaire, Rimbaud "and almost anything published by Burning Deck." Living in New York City, in part to keep in touch with the punk scene, he walked by the St. Mark's book store one day and his eye was caught by a reprinted version of ''BLAST'', with its shocking pink and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Watson (poet)
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Rosmarie Waldrop
Rosmarie Waldrop (born Rosmarie Sebald; August 24, 1935) is an American poet, novelist, translator, essayist and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958 and has settled in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s. Waldrop is a co-editor and publisher of Burning Deck Press. Early life in Germany Waldrop was born in Kitzingen am Main on August 24, 1935. Her father, Joseph Sebald, taught physical education at the town's high school. Towards the end of the Second World War, she joined a travelling theatre, but returned to school in early 1946. At school, she studied piano and flute and played in a youth orchestra. During Christmas in 1954, the orchestra gave a concert for American soldiers stationed at Kitzingen. After the performance, Keith Waldrop, a member of the audience, invited members of the orchestra to listen to his records. He and Rosmarie became friendly and worked together over the next few months, translating German poetry into Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Waldrop
Keith Waldrop (born December 11, 1932, in Emporia, Kansas) is an American poet, translator, and academic. He has authored numerous books of poetry and prose and translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. One such translation is Charles Baudelaire's ''Les Fleurs du Mal'' (2006). He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2009 collection ''Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy''. Personal life Waldrop started his education at Kansas State Teachers College, studying to be a doctor. However, in 1953, he was drafted into the United States Army and stationed in West Germany, where he met his wife Rosmarie Waldrop. Career Waldrop received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Michigan in 1964 and four years later began teaching at Brown University (1968). With Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and became a professor emeritus at Brown in 2011. The Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Squires
Geoffrey Squires (born 16 November 1942, in Derry, Northern Ireland) is an Irish poet who works in what might loosely be termed the modernist tradition. Early life While born in Derry, he grew up in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. He read English at Cambridge, and gained a PhD in multi-media instructional systems in adult education from the University of Edinburgh in 1970. During his career, Squires translated poems that were written in the Persian language and French language. His early work was influenced by the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson. Later life Between the mid 1970s and mid 1990s, Squires wrote poetry and submitted education journal articles. By the 2000s, Squires began working for the University of Hull in charge of their education department while also working as a reader. He is now retired and lives in Hull. American poet and critic Robert Archambeau has described his work as 'a poetry of immediate consciousness'. His more recent writings show the effe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Scully
Maurice Scully (1952 – 5 March 2023) was an Irish poet who worked in the modernist tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College. He was a member of Aosdana. Life After some years living in Italy, Africa and the west of Ireland, he settled with his wife and four children in Dublin. Scully died in Bolea, Spain on 5 March 2023. The Beau ''The Beau'' was an annual literary journal edited by Scully. It ran to three issues: 1981, 1982/83 and 1983/84. Although the journal was short-lived, its contributor list, featuring writers from Ireland, Britain and the United States, was impressive and it played an important role in the emergence of a number of experimental Irish poets. It also carried reproductions by a number of Irish artists. Contributors included Roy Fisher, Knute Skinner, William Oxley, Randolph Healy, Brian Coffey, David Wright, Paul Durcan, John Freeman, John Jordan, Anthony Cronin, Gavin Ewart, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, George Barker, De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Raworth
Thomas Moore Raworth (19 July 1938 – 8 February 2017) was an English-Irish poet, publisher, editor, and teacher who published over 40 books of poetry and prose during his life. His work has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival. Life and work Early life Raworth was born on 19 July 1938 in Bexleyheath, Kent, and grew up in Welling, the neighbouring town. His family maintained its strong Irish connections while he was growing up, something which would leave an impression on Raworth's sense of himself as a poet. His mother's family lived in the same house in Dublin as Seán O'Casey at the time that the playwright was working on '' Juno and the Paycock''. When he was 52 years old, Raworth acquired an Irish passport. He was educated at St. Stephen's Primary School, Welling, Kent (1943–1949); St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath, London S.E.3. (1949–1954); and at the University of Essex (1967–1970), where he earned a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordi Valls I Pozo
Jordi Valls i Pozo (born in Barcelona, January 25, 1970) is a Spanish poet. Biography He has lived in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a city that strongly impressed his poetic trajectory, for the majority of his life. Jordi Valls presided The Associació de Joves Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (Association of Young Catalan Language Writers) from 1994 to 1996, and is a member of The Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana The Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (, "Association of Writers in the Catalan Language", or "Association of Catalan-Language Writers"), also known by the acronym AELC, is a professional organisation of authors, poets, scriptwriters, tra ... (AELC) and The PEN Club Català (Catalan PEN Club). Having won The Jocs Florals de la Llengua Catalana in 2006, he was the first author who holds the office of City Poet. Ernest Farrés, author of the anthology called ''21 poetes del XXI'' (2001), states that "In the hands of Jordi Valls poetry is not only su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Miller (poet)
David Miller (born 1950) is a writer, poet, literary critic, and editor. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he has lived in London since 1972. Miller has published over fifty books and pamphlets. His first books were '' The Caryatids'' (Enitharmon Press) and ''South London Mix'' (Gaberbocchus Press), both published in 1975. His subsequent works include ''The Story'' (Arc Publications, 1976), ''Unity'' (Singing Horse Press, 1981), ''Pictures of Mercy'' (Stride, 1991), ''Stromata'' (Burning Deck Press, 1995), ''Collected Poems'' (University of Salzburg Press, 1997), ''Art and Disclosure'' (Stride, 1998), ''Spiritual Letters'' (1-12) (hawkhaven press, 1999) and ''The Waters of Marah'' (Singing Horse 2003, Shearsman 2005). His writing has been celebrated in ''At the Heart of Things: the poetry and prose of David Miller'' (Stride 1994). Other discussions of his writing can be found in an essay by Robert Hampson in ''New British Poetries: The Scope of the Possible'', ed. R. Hampson and Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lloyd (academic)
David Lloyd is a poet and professor of literature living in the United States though born in 1955 in Dublin. He holds a B.A. (1977), an M.A. (1981), and a PhD (1982) in Literature and Colonialism, all from Cambridge University. Lloyd has been Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and at the University of Southern California after previous appointments at Scripps College, Claremont, and the University of California, Berkeley. He became Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside in 2013. Lloyd's scholarship primarily addresses Irish literature and culture, colonialism and nationalism. He has also published several volumes of poetry. Lloyd came to public attention as a leader of a movement calling for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. In response to the concerns that the boycott is a violation of academic freedom, Lloyd responded, “Israeli institutions are complicit in immense infringement on Palestinian academic freedom, so itâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Joyce
Trevor Joyce (born 26 October 1947) is an Irish poet, born in Dublin. He co-founded New Writers' Press (NWP) in Dublin in 1967 and was a founding editor of NWP's '' The Lace Curtain; A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism'' in 1968. Joyce was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge in 2009/10 and he had residencies at Cill Rialaig, County Kerry, and at the University of Galway. He is also co-founder and director of the annual SoundEye Festival that is held in Cork City. Biography Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1947, Joyce was brought up between Mary Street, in the city centre, and the Galway Gaeltacht. Galway is the ancestral home of both his mother's and father's families, and Patrick Weston Joyce, historian, writer and collector of Irish music, and Robert Dwyer Joyce, poet, writer and fellow collector of music, are numbered among his great-granduncles. Recent poems such as "Trem Neul" see Joyce appropriate elements of the folk music gathered by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
