Greg Delanty
GREG DELANTY was born in Cork, Ireland in 1958 and lives in Burlington, Vermont where he teaches at St. Michael’s College. He became an American citizen in 1994. His latest books are Collected Poems 1986-2006 (Oxford Poets Series, Carcanet Press); The Ship of Birth (Oxford Poets Series, Carcanet Press, LSU Press in the US). His other poetry collections are The Blind Stitch (LSU Press 2002, Oxford Poets Series, Carcanet, 2001), The Hellbox (Oxford Poets Series, Oxford University Press, 1998), American Wake (Blackstaff/Dufour, 1995), Southward (LSU Press, 1992) and Cast in the Fire (Dolmen/Dufour, 1986). He has also finished editing a book for W,W. Norton titled The Word Exchange-- Living Poets Translate Anglo-Saxon Poems. This will appear from W.W. Norton late Fall 2010.
He has read widely in the United States and Europe, including the Library of Congress.
His poems have appeared in American, Irish, English, Australian, Japanese and Argentinean anthologies, including the Norton Introduction to Poetry, Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, American Poets of the New Century, 20th Century Irish Poems, and Contemporary Poets of New England. He has poem due to appear in in various anthologies, including the forthcoming Penguin Book Of Irish Verse. Individual poems have been published in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Statesman, the New Republic, American Scholar, the Irish Times, PN Review, and the Times Literary Supplement. His poem The Alien is due to be read in Garrison Keillor’s The Author’s Almanac. His translations include Aristophanes’ The Suits (The Knights) and Euripides’ Orestes (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).
He has received numerous awards including the Patrick Kavanagh Award (1983), the Allen Dowling Poetry Fellowship (1986), the Wolfers-O’Neill Award (1996-97), the Austin Clarke Award (1996), National Poetry Competition Prizewinner (Poetry Society of England, 1999) an Arts Council of Ireland Bursary (1998-99).
He was granted a Guggenheim for poetry for 2007-2008.
He is presently the Vice-President of The Association of Literary scholars and Critics and he will take over as President of this Association in October, 2010.
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