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Harry Clifton was born in Dublin in 1952, educated at Blackrock College and University College, Dublin and has travelled extensively in Africa, Asia and Europe.
The Gallery Press has published five collections of his poems: The Walls of Carthage (1977), Office of the Salt Merchant (1979), Comparative Lives (1982), The Liberal Cage (1988) and The Desert Route: Selected Poems 1973-1988 (1992), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
His chronicle of a year in the Abruzzo Mountains, On the Spine of Italy, was published in 1999, and his stories are collected as Berkeley's Telephone and Other Fictions (2000).
Harry Clifton has received the Patrick Kavanagh Award and two Arts Council Bursaries in Literature. He has represented Ireland at the Iowa International Writers' Programme and has been Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place, New Hampshire. He is a member of Aosdána. |
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