Ciaran Berry

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Ciaran Berry
Born1971
Dublin
Alma materNew York University
GenrePoetry

Ciaran Berry (born 1971 Dublin) is an Irish-American poet.

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Life

He grew up in Carna, County Galway and Falcarragh, County Donegal. [1] [2]

He graduated from New York University, a New York Times Fellow. He teaches at Trinity College, Hartford. [3]

His work appeared in Gulf Coast, [4] AGNI, [5] Crazyhorse, [6] The Missouri Review, [7] The Threepenny Review, [8] Gettysburg Review, [9] Green Mountains Review, [10] Ontario Review, [11] and Notre Dame Review .

Awards

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

  • Berry, Ciaran (2008). The sphere of birds. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN   9780809328383. OCLC   836596491.
  • (2013). The dead zoo. The Gallery Press. ISBN   9781852355692. OCLC   864085140.

List of poems

TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Electrocuting an elephant

Critical studies and reviews of Berry's work

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References

  1. "The Strong Reading and Award for Best First Collection" (PDF). Poetry Now. Retrieved 23 July 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. "Ciaran Berry - Bio". Poem of the Week. 25 January 2009. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  3. "Faculty Profiles". Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
  4. Ciaran Berry. "Sideshow". Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. Retrieved 27 June 2012.
  5. "Author Ciaran Berry". AGNI Magazine. 2008. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  6. Clayton McCauley. "Crazyhorse Number 71". Crazyhorse.cofc.edu. Archived from the original on 16 January 2008. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  7. "The Missouri Review - A Beard of Bees". Project MUSE. Winter 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  8. "Threepenny: Issue 101". The Threepenny Review. Spring 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  9. "Winter 2002 | the gettysburg review". The Gettysburg Review. Winter 2002. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  10. "Vol. XVIII, No. 1". Green Mountains Review. Archived from the original on 19 August 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  11. "Ontario Review Press -- Current Issue". Archived from the original on 11 July 2007. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  12. Flood, Alison (8 November 2008). "Sphere of Birds wins Jerwood Aldeburgh prize: Ciaran Berry's debut collection takes £3,000 award". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  13. "Donegal poet takes US literary prize". Donegal Democrat . 12 November 2012. Archived from the original on 25 November 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2012.