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Jo Brand by Mark Granier
Mark Granier born in London, England, is an Irish poet and photographer based in Dublin, Ireland. [1] Poetry Ireland Review describes Granier as, "a poet of individual poems," poems that are, "perfectly operating verbal machines, which are their own fulfillment, with everything concentrated on the final, sealing line." [2]
Mark Granier was born in London in 1957. He completed an MA in Poetry/Creative Writing with Lancaster University and has been teaching creative writing in University College Dublin for several years. He lives in Dublin with his wife and son.
He has published five poetry collections: Airborne (Salmon Poetry, 2001), The Sky Road (Salmon Poetry, 2007), Fade Street (Salt Publishing, 2010), Haunt (Salmon Poetry, 2015), and Ghostlight: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2017). He received five Arts Council bursaries, in 2002, 2008, 2013, 2018 and 2021 (and a Covid 19 Response Award in 2020). Other awards include the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize in 2004 and The Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Poetry Fellowship in 2011 and 2016. [3]
The Irish Times describes Granier's Fade Street, in which the title poem is a reflection on a Victorian era photograph, as "ekphrastic." [1] In its review of Fade Street,Poetry Ireland Review, describes Granier as, "well-known for his visual sense." [2]
Mark Granier's photography work includes portraits of some well-known writers and performers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jo Brand. Apart from furnishing the cover photography for his four poetry collections, he has done cover work for a number of publishers, including Faber & Faber, The O’Brien Press, Salmon Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review and The Stinging Fly. The literary/photographic journal Irish Pages published a portfolio of his work in 2011 and his photographs have regularly appeared in The Guardian Weekend Magazine and have been exhibited in two group shows in London (in The Oxo Gallery on The South Bank and The Guardian Offices). In 2012 he was awarded the jury prize in The Open House Photographic competition run by the Architecture Foundation. In 2015 his work was selected by Mark St. John Ellis (of nag Gallery, Dublin) to appear in an open submission competition/exhibition, Home , in the Municipal Gallery in The Lexicon Library in Dún Laoghaire. He was also awarded runner-up prize in this competition. His work has also been exhibited in the 2015 Royal Hibernian Academy annual exhibition in Dublin.
Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".
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