kevin kiely
Maeve McCarthy












Biography


poet, novelist, playwriter, iiterary critic—born Co. Down, Northern Ireland—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); Fulbright Scholar-Professor Boise State University, Idaho, USA 2007-2008.

(Selected Publications)

Novels
Quintesse, Co-Op Books, Dublin 1982; St Martin's Press, New York 1985-Gavin Witt, English Major at Yale wrote a study of Quintesse in 1988. Mere Mortals Odell & Adair/Poolbeg 1989 Short Listed for the Hughes & Hughes Fiction Prize. 

Poetry
Plainchant for a Sundering, Lapwing, Belfast 2001, Breakfast with Sylvia, Lagan, Belfast 2005. Winner of The Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship 2006 A Horse Called El Dorado O'Brien Press, 2005-Bisto Award 2006

Biography
Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Liffey Press, Dublin 2007; Dufour, USA 2008)

Plays
Multiple Indiscretions (1997) broadcast by RTÉ; Children of No Importance (2000) broadcast by RTÉ.


Work-in-Progress
Trilogy: Excess Road, Journey East, Out There.

Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism for Hibernia, Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Studies Review, Honest Ulsterman, Fortnight, Inis, Books Ireland, Poetry Ireland Review, Irish Book Review, Irish Arts Review and The Irish Times 

Recent poems in: Anvil; Criterion; The Belle; Edinburgh Review; The Poetry Ireland Review; The Democrat Arts Page; The Mayo News; The Salmon; Adrift NY; Foolscap (London); Oasis (London); Other Poetry; Acumen; The Literary Review (NJ); Cyphers; Incognito; Chapman (Scotland); Markings; Southword; The Shop; The Black Mountain Review, Riposte, The Cork Literary Review, The Burning Bush, Storm (Scotland), Fortnight, Touchstone, The Journal (UK).

Various Poetry Reading Venues (sample below): Channel 5 TV Chicago 1983 Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin-Teatro Clarisse, Rapallo, Italy 2005, National Gallery of Ireland 2006, The Ernest Hemingway Center, Boise 2007 and YouTube

Awards & Literary Editorships:
The Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry 2006 Bisto Award 2006 for Fiction
Literary Editor Books Ireland New Writing 1996-2001
Assistant Editor Books Ireland 2001-2005
Arts Council Bursary Awards-in-Literature: 1980 1989 1990 1998 1999 and 2004

Conference Papers (Selected) 'Pound and the Irish Writer' (IASIL Conference paper) at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, University College Dublin July 2007 http://www.iasil.org/ucd 'Pound and the Small Publisher-Elkin Mathews' at the Ezra Pound International Conference, Venice June 2007 http: //lowres.uno.edu/ezrapound/ 'A Mystical Element in the Pisan Cantos' in Ezra Pound, Language and Persona, edited by Massimo Bacigalupo and William Pratt University of Genoa Press 2008

Recent Interviews and Serialization Boise Weekly January 2, 2008: 'Poet Kevin Kiely on poetry and politics' interview by Gretchen Jude The Arbiteronline Podcast Interview with Kevin Kiely by Arbiter Editor, Dustin Leprey Idaho Statesman February 21, 2008: 'Want to put your feelings into words'; Chad Dryden talked to Kevin Kiely Kevin Kiely's Journey East, serialized in The Arbiter commencing January 21, 2008.

 


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