John Patrick Brasier-Creagh, best known as Patrick Creagh (23 October 1930 - 19 September 2012) was a British poet and translator.
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'', 2 November 2012.

Life

Patrick Creagh was educated at

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and Brasenose College, Oxford. He and his first wife, Lola Segre, lived in Rome until her sudden death in 1960. Creagh returned to London, losing all his books in transit, but returned to Italy in the late 1960s, travelling with

Derek Raymond Robert William Arthur Cook (12 June 1931 – 30 July 1994), better known since the 1980s by his pen name Derek Raymond, was an English crime writer, credited with being a founder of British '' noir''. Biography Early life The eldest son of a t ...

in an army truck. His second wife Ursula Barr was the ex-wife of

Al Alvarez Alfred Alvarez (5 August 1929 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who published under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez. Background Alfred Alvarez was born in London, to an Ashkenazic Jewish mother and a ...

and a granddaughter of

D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. His best-k ...

's wife. After she inherited the rights to '' Lady Chatterley's Lover'', the pair were able to buy an old farmhouse called Spanda north of

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. Creagh met the composer

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while teaching at

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, and wrote several libretti for him. In the early 1980s Creagh and Barr separated, and Creagh subsequently lived with his partner Susan Rose, née James, at

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Works

Poetry

* ''Row of Pharaohs'', Heinemann, 1962 * ''A Picture of Tristan: Imitations of Tristan Corbière'', 1965. * ''Dragon Jack-Knifed'', 1966 * ''To Abel and others'', 1970 * ''The lament of the border-guard'', 1980

Translations

* ''Design as art'' by

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, 1970 * ''Selected poems'' by

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, 1971 * ''Architecture as environment'' by Flavio Conti, 1978 * ''Splendor of the gods'' by Flavio Giovanni Conti, 1978 * ''The moral essays'' by

Giacomo Leopardi Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (, ; 29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. He is considered the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and one of ...

, 1983 * ''Danube'' by

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, 1989: winner of the

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1990 * ''Blind Argus'' by Gesualdo Bufalino, 1989: winner of the

1990 * ''Beautiful Antonio'' by

Vitaliano Brancati Vitaliano Brancati (; 24 July 1907 – 25 September 1954) was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter. Biography Born in Pachino, Syracuse, Brancati studied in Catania, where he graduated in letters and where he spent the most pa ...

, 1993 * ''The keeper of ruins and other inventions'' by

Gesualdo Bufalino Gesualdo Bufalino (; Comiso, Italy, 15 November 1920 – 14 June 1996), was an Italian writer. Biography Gesualdo Bufalino was born in Comiso, Sicily. He studied literature and was a high-school professor in his hometown, for most of his life ...

, 1994 * ''Pereira declares: a testimony'' by

Antonio Tabucchi Antonio Tabucchi (; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of ...

, 1995 * ''The chimera'' by

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, 1995 * ''The lament of the linnet'' by

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* ''The missing head of Damasceno Monteiro'' by

, 1999 * ''Tommaso and the blind photographer'' by

, 2000 * ''The Advocate'' by

Marcello Fois Marcello Fois (born 1960) is an Italian writer. He was born in Nuoro in Sardinia and studied at the University of Bologna. His first novel ''Ferro Recente'' was published in 1989. A prolific author, he has also written scripts for radio, TV, fil ...

, 2001 * ''Involuntary witness'' by

Gianrico Carofiglio Gianrico Carofiglio (born 30 May 1961) is a novelist and former anti-Mafia judge in the Italian city of Bari. His debut novel, '' Involuntary Witness'', published in 2002 and translated into English in 2005 by Patrick Creagh, was published by the B ...

, 2005 * ''Memory of the Abyss'' by Marcello Fois 2012: winner of the

2014

References

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