Tony Curtis (born 1955) is an Irish poet.
Curtis was born in
Dublin
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, and educated at the
University of Essex
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and at
Trinity College, Dublin. In 1993 he won the Poetry Ireland/Friends Provident National Poetry Competition. In 2018 he won the 2018 O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award presented by the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He also works in education under the Skagit River Poetry Project schools programme.
Curtis is a member of
Aosdána
Aosdána ( , ; from , 'people of the arts') is an Irish association of artists. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers with support from the country's Arts Council. Membership, which is by invitation from current member ...
List of Aosdána members
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Works
*''The Shifting of Stones'' (1986)
*''Behind the Green Curtain'' (1988)
*''This Far North'' (1994)
*''Three Songs of Home'' (1998)
*''The Book of Winter Cures'' (2002)
*''What Darkness Covers'' (2003)
*''The Well in the Rain'' (2006)
*''Days Like These'' (with Paula Meehan and Theo Dorgan) (2008)
*''Folk'' (2011)
*''Sandworks'' (with the Irish photographer Liam Blake) (2011)
*''An Elephant Called Rex'' (illustrated by Pat Mooney) (2011)
*''Aran Currach'' (with the Irish photographer Liam Blake) (2013)
*''Pony'' (with the artist David Lilburn) (2013)
*''Approximately in the Key of C'' (2015)
*''This Flight Tonight'' (2019)
References
External links Tony Curtis: Irish Poetry Reading Archive, UCD
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1955 births
Living people
20th-century Irish poets
20th-century Irish male writers
Aosdána members
21st-century Irish poets
Irish male poets
21st-century Irish male writers