Irish Literature Prize: Poetry

Collected Poems

Collected Poems

John Montague

John Montague was born in 1929 in Brooklyn, New York and reared on the family farm in Co Tyrone. He now lives in Co Cork. He has taught in France, Canada, and the US, and, for most of his career, at UCC. He is poet-in-residence at the New York State Writers' Institute. His previous works include: The Rough Field; The Great Cloak and The Dead Kingdom. In 1995 he received the American Ireland Fund Literary Award.

Collected Poems is published by Gallery Press

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Collected Poems

Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland was born in Dublin. She studied in Ireland, London and New York. Her first book of poetry was published in 1967. Her most recently-published collections include The Journey (a Poetry Book Society choice in 1987); Selected Poems (a Poetry Book Society recommendation in 1989) and Outside History. She also received one of the Lannon Literary Awards worth $50,000 She is currently Professor of English at Stanford University and regularly provides criticism for literary journals. Her prose book Object Lessons won a Special Commendation from the Poetry Book Society and her new collection, Lost World, will be published in 1998.

Collected Poems is published by Carcanet

New Selected Poems

Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon was born in Co Armagh in 1951. He read English at Queen's University, Belfast and whilst a student Faber and Faber published his first collection of poems. He moved to the US in 1987 and has held various teaching posts at the universities of Princeton, Columbia, Berkeley and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He won the 1995 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for The Annals of Chile. In October 1995, Faber published The Last Thesaurus, his first collection of verse for children. His published works also include: Why Brownlee Left; Selected Poems of Paul Muldoon; Meeting The British and Madoc.

New Selected Poems is published by Faber