Ciaran Berry

Ciaran Berry
Born1971
Dublin
Alma materNew York University
GenrePoetry

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

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

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Electrocuting an elephant

Critical studies and reviews of Berry's work

  • Cooke, Belinda (June–July 2014). "Nasty, brutish and short". The London Magazine: 99–104. Review of The dead zoo.

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.