Catherine Walsh (born 1964) is an
Irish poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...
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Biography
She was born in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...
, 1964, and grew up there and in rural
Wexford
Wexford () is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland. Wexford lies on the south side of Wexford Harbour, the estuary of the River Slaney near the southeastern corner of the island of Ireland. The town is linked to Dublin by the M11/N11 N ...
. She is the founder and co-editor of
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. ...
with
Billy Mills. She lives in
Limerick
Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region. With a population of 94,192 at the 2016 ...
.
She served as Holloway Lecturer on the Practice of Poetry at University of California, Berkeley for 2012/13.
Publications
*''Macula'' (Dublin, Red Wheelbarrow Press, 1986)
*''The Ca Pater Pillar Thing and More Besides'' (Dublin, hardPressed Poetry, 1986)
*''Making Tents'' (hardPressed Poetry, 1987)
*''Short Stories'' (UK, Twickenham and Wakefield, North & South, 1989)
*''from Pitch'' (London, Form Books, 1993)
*''Pitch'' (Durham, UK, Pig press, 1994)
*''Idir Eatortha & Making Tents'' (London, Invisible Books, 1997)
*''Etruscan Books Reader No 1'' ( Devon, Etruscan Books, 1997)
*''from City West'' (Vermont, Longhouse, 1997)
*''City West'' (Exeter, UK, Shearsman Books, Ltd, 2005)
*''Optic Verve'' (Exeter, UK, Shearsman Books, Ltd, 2009)
''Astonished Birds Cara, Jane, Bob and James''(hardPressed Poetry, 2012)
References
External links
1964 births
Living people
20th-century Irish poets
21st-century Irish poets
Irish women poets
People from County Dublin
People from County Wexford
Writers from Limerick (city)
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