John Ennis 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 ...

born in

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in 1944.

Life

He retired as head of the School of Humanities at

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in 2009 and now divides his time between

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and

. He is a graduate of

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and

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. He won the

Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award is an Irish poetry award for a collection of poems by an author who has not previously been published in collected form. It is confined to poets born on the island of Ireland, or who have Irish nationality, or are ...

in 1975, the

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Open Poetry Competition eleven times, and the Irish American Cultural Institute Award in 1996. He has been editor of Poetry Ireland Review and served on the board of Poetry Ireland for eleven years. From 2003 to 2007, he co-edited three anthologies of Canadian – Irish Poetry. In 2008, Memorial University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in Laws for fostering links between Ireland and Newfoundland, and for his poetry. In the ‘90s,

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

chose him as Ireland's most undeservedly neglected poet.

Poetry books

*Night on Hibernia ( Oldcastle, Co Meath The Gallery Press, 1976) *Dolmen Hill (The Gallery Press, 1977) *A Drink of Spring (The Gallery Press, 1979) *The Burren Days (The Gallery Press, 1985) *Arboretum (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1990) *In a Green Shade (The Dedalus Press, 1991) *Down in the Deeper Helicon (Dedalus Press, 1994) *Telling the Bees (Dedalus Press, 1995) *Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 1996) *Tráithníní (Dedalus Press, 2000) *Near St Mullins (Dedalus, 2002). *Postponing Ásbyrgi (Three Spires Press, 2012) *A Pullet for Jack (Book Hub Publishing, 2014)

Notes and references

External links

*http://www.irishwriters-online.com/ennis-john/ 1944 births Irish poets Living people People from County Westmeath People associated with Waterford Institute of Technology {{Ireland-writer-stub