Peter Sirr (born 1960) is an

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, born in

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. He lives in

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where he works as a freelance writer and

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Life

Peter Sirr was born in Waterford in 1960, before moving to Dublin with his family as a child. Sirr was educated at Trinity College Dublin. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1982, and he won the poetry prize at Listowel Writers' Week in 1983. He has divided much of his time between Ireland, Italy, and Holland, though he has now settled back in Dublin. He was director of the Irish Writers' Centre from 1991 to 2002, and was editor of

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from 2003 to 2007. He was on the shortlist twice for the

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for his collection ''Nonetheless'' in 2005 and for ''The Thing Is'' in 2010. In 2011, he won the Michael Hartnett award for ''The Thing Is''. Peter Sirr is currently a freelance writer and

. He also lectures part-time at

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. A member of

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, he lives in

with his wife

Enda Wyley Enda Wyley is an Irish writer of poetry and children's literature. Life Enda Wyley was born in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin in 1966 and lives in Dublin. She was awarded a B.Ed. by the Marino Institute of Education, Dublin and then worked ...

and their daughter, Freya.

Poetry books

*''Marginal Zones'' (Gallery Press 1984) *''Talk, Talk'' (Gallery Press 1987) *''Ways of Falling'' (Gallery Press 1991) *''The Ledger of Fruitful Exchange'' (Gallery Press 2000) *''Bring Everything'' (Gallery Press 2000) *''Nonetheless'' (Gallery Press 2004) *''Selected Poems 1982-2004'' (Gallery Press 2004); Wake Forest University Press, 2005 *''The Thing Is'' (Gallery Press 2009) *''The Rooms'' (Gallery Press 2014)

Books for children

*''Black Wreath'' (O'Brien Press 2014)

Notes and references

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20091004195127/http://www.irishwriters-online.com/petersirr.html
Peter Sirr's page at Wake Forest University Press
*http://www.gallerypress.com/Authors/Psirr/psirr.html *http://www.obrien.ie/peter-sirr * 1960 births Living people Writers from County Dublin Writers from County Waterford 20th-century Irish poets 21st-century Irish poets Alumni of Trinity College Dublin {{Ireland-writer-stub