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Biography
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): 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.
(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 (long-poem) 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)-authorized by Stuart
Plays
Multiple Indiscretions (1997) broadcast by RTE
(Ireland) Children of No Importance (2000) broadcast by RTÉ
(Ireland)
Current Projects
Adaptation
of the drama 'Children of No Importance' for a Theatre Production
Completion of PhD Thesis for University College Dublin
(Ireland): 'The Irish-American Stewart of Poetry: John Lincoln
Sweeney' curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University
1942-1969
S.O.S -- a novel for young readers
White Light
Experience-a new collection of poetry
Trilogy: Excess Road,
Journey East, Out There (A Trilogy of experimental novellas
thematically linked with distinct 'persons' in each novella: set in
Europe, the United States and the Orient)
Literary
Criticism
Literary Criticism for Hibernia, Irish
Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Studies Review, Honest Ulsterman,
Fortnight, 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.
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 of Journey East: 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 (the complete novella) serialized
in The Arbiter commencing January 21, 2008 |
