Gabriel Rosenstock (born 29 September 1949) is an

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writer who works chiefly in the

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. A member of

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, he is

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, playwright,

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ist,

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ist, essayist, and author/

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of over 180 books, mostly in Irish. Born in

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, he currently resides in

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Biography

Rosenstock's father George was a

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and writer from

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, who served as a

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with the

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. His mother was a nurse from

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. Gabriel was the third of six children and the first born in

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. He was educated locally in Kilfinane, then in Mount Sackville,

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. He exhibited an early interest in anarchism and was expelled from

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(County Meath) and exiled to

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(County Tipperary). Later, he attended

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. His son, Tristan, is a member of the

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quintet

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, and

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/actor

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is his nephew.

Work

Rosenstock worked for some time on the television series ''Anois is Arís'' on

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, then on the weekly newspaper '' Anois''. Until his retirement he worked with ''

An Gúm An Gúm (, "The Scheme") was an Irish state company tasked with the publication of Irish literature, especially educational materials. The agency is now part of Foras na Gaeilge.

'', the publications branch of , the North-South body which promotes the Irish language. Although he has worked in

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and

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, Rosenstock is primarily known as a poet. He has written or translated over 180 books. He has edited and contributed to books of haiku in Irish, English, Scots and Japanese. He is a prolific translator into Irish of international poetry (among others

Ko Un Ko Un (born 1 August 1933) is a South Korean poet whose works have been translated and published in more than fifteen countries. He had been imprisoned many times due to his role in the campaign for Korean democracy and was later mentioned in K ...

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.

, K. Satchidanandan,

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

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), plays ( Beckett, Frisch,

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) and songs (

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). He also has singable Irish translations of

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and other art songs. He appears in the anthology ''Best European Fiction 2012'', edited by

Aleksandar Hemon Aleksandar Hemon ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Xeмoн; born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels '' Nowhere Man'' (2002) and '' The Lazarus Pr ...

, with a preface by

Nicole Krauss Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her four novels '' Man Walks into a Room'' (2002), ''The History of Love'' (2005), ''Great House'' (2010) and '' Forest Dark'' (2017), which have been translated into 35 l ...

(Dalkey Archive Press). He gave the keynote address to Haiku Canada in 2015. His being named as Lineage Holder of Celtic Buddhism inspired the latest title in a rich output of haiku collections: Antlered Stag of Dawn (Onslaught Press, Oxford, 2015), haiku in Irish and English with translations into Japanese and Scots

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. Gabriel has worked with American photographer Ron Rosenstock, Indian Photographer Debiprasad Mukherjee, Greek photographer Kon Markogiannis, Dublin photographer Jason Symes, French photographer Jean-Pierre Favreau and many more to create the new guise of a photo-haiku (or a haiga) - the interplay of visual aesthetic and literature. He also writes for children, in prose and verse. Haiku Más É Do Thoil É! (

An Gúm An Gúm (, "The Scheme") was an Irish state company tasked with the publication of Irish literature, especially educational materials. The agency is now part of Foras na Gaeilge.

) won the Children's Books Judges’ Special Prize in 2015.

Awards and honours

*Member of

(Irish academy of arts & letters) *Lineage Holder of Celtic Buddhism *Former Chairman

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/Éigse Éireann *Corresponding Member Hellenic Authors’ Society *Member of the Board of Advisors to Poetry India *Tamgha-I-Khidmat medal (Pakistan) for services to literature. *Honorary Life Member Irish Translators and Interpreters Association *He taught haiku at the Schule für Dichtung (Poetry Academy), Vienna, and at the Hyderabad Literary Festival.

List of selected works

;Poetry in Irish and Bilingual editions *''Susanne sa seomra folctha''. Clódhanna 1973 *''Méaram''. An Clóchomhar 1981 *''Om''. An Clóchomhar 1983 *''Nihil Obstat''.

Coiscéim Coiscéim (; "Footstep") is a prolific Dublin-based Irish-language publisher founded by writer, historian and language activist Pádraig Ó Snodaigh in 1980. With over 1,500 titles Coiscéim have published the largest number of titles amongst the 2 ...

, 1984 *''Migmars''. Ababúna, 1985 *''Rún na gCaisleán''. Taibhse, 1986 *''Oráistí''. Rogha dánta agus dánta nua. Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 1991 *''Ní mian léi an fhilíocht níos mó''. Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 1993 *''Rogha Rosenstock''. Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 1994 *''Syójó''. Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2001 *''Eachtraí Krishnamurphy''. Coiscéim, 2003 *''Forgotten Whispers / Cogair dhearúdta''. 2003. (Haiku with photography by John Minihan) *''Krishnamurphy Ambaist''

, 2004 *''Rogha Dánta/ Selected Poems,'' translated by Paddy Bushe: CIC, 2005 *''Bliain an Bhandé/ Year of the Goddess''. Dedalus Press 2007 *''Margadh na Míol in Valparaíso''/ ''The Flea Market in Valparaíso'' (new and selected poems) CIC 2014 *''Cuach ó Aois Eile ag Glaoch''. Coiscéim, 2014 *''Sasquatch''. Arlen House, 2014 *''Chogyam Trungpa: One Hundred Haiku (Japanese Edition)'', with English and Japanese translations. Amazon Kindle edition, 2014 *''EVERY NIGHT I SEND YOU FLOWERS'', Tanka in response to the art of Odilon Redon, bilingual. Cross-Cultural Communications, New York (ebook) 2020 *''The Road to Corrymore / Bóthar an Choire Mhóir'', Ekphrastic tanka in Irish and English. Cross-Cultural Communications, New York (ebook) 2021 *''Mo Shaol Mar Scannán / My Life As A Film'', a book length poem in praise of the movies ;Criticism and essays *''Ólann mo mhiúil as an nGainséis (My mule drinks from the Ganges)''. Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2003 , *''Éist leis an gCruinne''.

Evertype Michael Everson (born January 9, 1963) is an American and Irish linguist, script encoder, typesetter, type designer and publisher. He runs a publishing company called Evertype, through which he has published over a hundred books since 2006. His ...

, 2014,
''A Doorstopper Anthology: Bone and Marrow.'' The poet's forensic examination of ''Bone and Marrow: An Anthology of Irish Poetry.''
In

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, an online repository of academic articles ;Poetry in English *''Cold Moon: The Erotic Haiku of Gabriel Rosenstock'', 1993 *''Portrait of the Artist as an Abominable Snowman''. Selected Poems, translated from the Irish by

Michael Hartnett Michael Hartnett ( ga, Mícheál Ó hAirtnéide) (18 September 1941 – 13 October 1999) was an Irish poet who wrote in both English and Irish. He was one of the most significant voices in late 20th-century Irish writing and has been called " Mu ...

, and New Poems, translated by Jason Sommer, Forest Books, 1989 *''Forgotten Whispers'', 2003, with John Minihan. Haiku *''Hymn to the Earth''. The Silverstrand Press, 2004. (Poems and photography by Ron Rosenstock) *''Uttering Her Name'' (poems to the goddess Dar Óma) 2010 Salmon Poetry *''The Invisible Light'' 2012 (Poems and photography by Ron Rosenstock) *''Where Light Begins'' (haiku selection) Original Writing Ltd, Dublin, 2012 *''I Met a Man from Artikelly: Verse for the young and young at heart''.

, 2013, *''The Naked Octopus: Erotic haiku in English with Japanese translations''.

, 2013, *''Fluttering their way into my head: An exploration of Haiku for young people''.

, 2013, *''Duet of Waterfalls'' with Tatsuo Murata Japan Universal Poets Association 2015 ;Novel in Irish *''Lacertidae''. (Novella) Coiscéim, 1994 ;Translations *''March hare'', 1994. Short stories from the Irish language author Pádraic Breathnach *''Full Moon: Ré Lán'', Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc, 2010, Limited bilingual edition, Irish language translation of English haiku from the Nepalese haiku poet

Janak Sapkota Janak Sapkota ( ne, जनक सापकोटा; born 1987) is a Nepalese haiku poet who works mainly in the English language. He is based in Finland. Sapkota's books include ''Long Days of Rain'' (2016). His haiku have appeared internationall ...

*''Whisper of Pines: Cogar na nGiúiseanna'', Original Writing 2012. Irish language translations of English haiku from the Nepalese haiku poet

*''The Moon over Tagoto'' (contribution to a new multi-lingual version of that classic of world literature by haiku master Buson) Beehive Publishers, 2015 ;Books in English *''The Wasp in the Mug: Unforgettable Irish Proverbs''. Mercier Press, 1993 *''Haiku Enlightenment'' (essay) Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2005 *''Haiku, the Gentle Art of Disappearing'' Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2005 *''The Pleasantries of Krishnamurphy'' Non-Duality Press, 2011 *''My Head is Missing'' 2012 (Detective novel) *''The Partisan and other stories''.

, 2014, *''CHE: Haiku Glimpse K, with Tatsuo Murata, Mariko Sumikura Japan Universal Poets Association ;DVD *The Light Within (poetry, photography and soundscape, with Ron Rosenstock and Eugene Skeef) ;Recorded Media *Video readings in th
Irish Poetry Reading Archive
UCD Digital Library, University College Dublin *''Haiku as Gaeilge'' ;Textbooks *''Beginner's Irish'', Hippocrene Books, New York, 2005, and

References

External links

General links

Gabriel Rosentock
at

Poems of Gabriel Rosenstock in German translation (Poetenladen)

Rogha Gabriel, Blog

-Lieder and art song translations
Review of ''Where Light Begins: Haiku''
Rimas Uzgiris in Haiku Society of America
Review of ''Margadh na Míol in Valparaíso: the Flea Market in Valparaíso: new and selected poems''
in Books Ireland Magazine
Review of ''Emptiness'': photographs with haiku in English, Irish & Japanese
Philip Gross in Long Exposure Magazine
Gabriel Rosenstock recites ''Uaireanta is Fear Bréige Mé (Sometimes I'm a Scarecrow)''. With fellow-INNTI poet, Michael Davitt, 1988 (in Irish).Thomas Goggin reviews ''Haiku Enlightenment''
in

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Review of ''Walk with Gandhi''
in The Wire.
Review of ''Walk with Gandhi''
in Culture Matters
''4 tanka'' in Modern Literature online magazine (English language)''My Head Is Missing: A Kerry Detective Story''
audiobook
''Préacháin Chill Fhíonáin / The Crows of Kilfinane''
A bilingual rensaku (haiku sequence)
A varied collection of articles and poetry by Gabriel Rosenstock
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Free books

''EVERY NIGHT I SEND YOU FLOWERS''
Tanka in response to the art of

Odilon Redon Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon; ; 20 April 18406 July 1916) was a French Symbolism (arts), symbolist painter, printmaker, Drawing, draughtsman and pastellist. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, he ...

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''The Road to Corrymore / Bóthar an Choire Mhóir''
Ekphrastic tanka in Irish and English. (ebook)
''Rising Flame of Love''
Tanka in Irish and English with vintage Indian matchboxes. (ebook)
''Broken Angels / Aingil Bhriste''
Bilingual ekphrastic tanka – poems of love, longing and emptiness – in response to artwork by various hands. (ebook)
''Outskirts of the Mind / Ciumhais na hAigne''
Bilingual tanka, in Irish and English, in response to artwork by various hands. Mystic poems of love, longing and emptiness in 5-7-5-7-7 syllables. (ebook)
''Secrets of Secrets / Rún na Rún''
Bilingual tanka, in Irish and English, in response to artwork by various hands. Mystic poems of love, longing and emptiness in 5-7-5-7-7 syllables. (ebook)
''Brightening of Days''
Tanka in Irish, English and Croatian, in response to artwork by the Croatian painter Alfred Freddy Krupa. (ebook)
''The Lantern/An Lóchrann''
Tanka in Irish and English, in response to artwork by various hands. (ebook)
''Don Quijote in the Land of Shadows/Don Cíochótae i dTír na Scáileanna''
Haiku and senryū in Irish, English, Scots, Japanese, inspired by artwork. (ebook)
''A Scent of Loneliness''
Haiku and senryū in Irish, English, Scots, Japanese, inspired by artwork. (ebook)
''A Sweater for the Tayfel''
Haiku in Irish and English, a celebration of the art of Issachar Ber Ryback. (ebook - click image, then title)
''Where Light Begins''
free online haiku book, English language, 2012
''Ants are Rejoicing''
free online book of tanka in Irish and English, to artwork by Sonia Rodrigues Sabharwal, 2022
''The Selborne Haibun''
after Gilbert White’s classic ''The Natural History of Selborne''; free online haibun in Irish and English, 2022
''Léighleat''
A website created in 2022 containing a vast treasurehouse of kids' stories and poems in Irish, collected over a number of years. {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenstock, Gabriel 1949 births Living people 21st-century Irish-language poets Alumni of University College Cork Aosdána members German–Irish translators Irish Buddhists Irish people of German descent Irish poets Writers from County Limerick People educated at Rockwell College 20th-century Irish writers 20th-century male writers 21st-century Irish writers 21st-century Irish male writers 20th-century Irish translators 21st-century Irish translators Irish children's writers Irish-language writers Translators to Irish Haiku poets