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Gerald Dawe
Gerald Dawe is a graduate of the University of Ulster and the National University of Ireland. He is Senior Lecturer in English and Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing where he is Director of the graduate creative writing programme. A Fellow of TCD, he is a well-known poet and critic.
Select publications
Poetry:
Sheltering Places (1978), The Lundys Letter (1985), Sunday School (1991), Heart of Hearts (1995), The Morning Train (1999), Lake Geneva (2003) and Points West (2008).
Criticism:
The Proper Word: Ireland, Poetry, Politics (ed. by Nicholas Allen), Creighton University Press, 2007
"Poetry as commemoration" in Eberhard Bort, ed., Commemorating Ireland: history, politics, culture, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2004.
Translation:
The Night Fountain: Uncollected Poems of Salvatore Quasimodo (with Marco Sonzogni), Arc Publications, Todmorden, Lancs 2008.
Forthcoming - Conversations:Poets & Poetry, Belfast, Lagan Press 2011.
Teaching/research interests
Irish writing, 19th and 20th centuries; modern poetry in translation.
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