Francis Stuart; ‘a fascinatingly accurate echo of the controversial writer's own eerie voice’ The Irish Times ‘Kiely has had the great benefit of access to a large body of Stuart’s papers—in the National Archives, unpublished journals and archives and diaries held at Coleraine, other materials held by family members—not available to Stuart’s previous biographers.’ Irish Independent
Something Sensational To Read in the Train (anthology foreword: Brendan Kennelly) Lemon Soap Press, Dublin 2005 Catullus: One Man of Verona anthology ed. Ronan Sheehan (forthcoming) |
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Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Literary Critic-born Co. Down, Northern Ireland-attended University College Galway (Ireland): Diploma in Creative Writing; Honorary Fellow-in-Writing Iowa University, USA; Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing, Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland); PhD Candidate (Completing 2008/9) University College Dublin (Ireland): Doctoral Thesis topic: 'The Irish American Stewart to Poets: John Lincoln Sweeney' at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University 1942-1969; Fulbright Scholar-Professor Boise State University, Idaho, USA 2007-2008. Awarded Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship 2006 in Poetry Breakfast with Sylvia "Kevin Kiely, like quite a few of his literary contemporaries, has a reputation as strong in Europe and the US as it is here. The title poem, 'Breakfast with Sylvia Plath', carries the reader forward with fierce impetus from one hectic image to the next, slipping in and out from narrative to interior monologue, a psychic whirlwind that becomes an affecting rendering of Plath's suicide." The Irish Times
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