Ciaran Berry
Ciaran Berry’s poetry seems conversational at a first glance. But his work, like Emily Brontë’s, possesses the rare quality of ‘power of wing’. He can enter imaginatively into the life of a hive of bees or the death of a rogue elephant, and he holds the door open for the reader. Memorable as these poems are, it is not enough to have read them — you want to be reading them, back in the world of this poet’s voice.
— Helen Dunmore
Aldeburgh Prize citation
Ciaran Berry was born in Dublin in 1971 and grew up in Carna, County Galway and Falcarragh, County Donegal. He received his B.A. from the University of Ulster and his MFA from New York University and was awarded a New York Times Fellowship.
His poems have been widely published in American and Irish journals including AGNI, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Irish Review, The Moth, The Southern Review and The New Republic. His work was selected for Best New Poets 2006 and Best American Poetry 2008.
The Sphere of Birds won the Crab Orchard Series Award of Southern Illinois University Press, the 2008 Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize and the inaugural Michael Murphy Memorial Award, 2011. In 2012 he received a Whiting Writers’ Award for poetry. His second collection, The Dead Zoo, was published in 2013 and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His third collection, Liner Notes was published in October 2018.
Ciaran Berry teaches at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where he lives with his family.
Ciaran Berry Titles
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Liner Notes
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The Dead Zoo
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The Sphere of Birds
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Recent Gallery Press Titles
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Collected Poems
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The Limit of Light
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Washing Up
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Shallow Seas
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Plainchant
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The Talk of the Town
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The Kabul Olympics
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The Sea Field
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Double Negative
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Still Life
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The Mother House
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Pale Sister
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Selected Poems 1961-2017
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The Last Peacock
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Marine Cloud Brightening
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The Gravity Wave
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The Wedding Breakfast
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The Last Straw
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Aidan Carl Mathews was born in 1956 and educated at UCD, TCD, and Stanford University. He has published three collections of poetry, Windfalls, Minding Ruth (Gallery, 1983) and According to the Small Hours (1998). He has published short stories: Adventures in a Bathyscope (which was shortlisted for the GPA Award), Lipstick on the Host and Charlie Chaplin's Wishbone (2016, Lilliput) and a novel, Muesli at Midnight. Other awards include an Irish Times Award, Patrick Kavanagh Award, Macauley Fellowship and an Academy of American Poets Award.
His plays include Exit/Entrance (Gallery 1990), The Diamond Body, The Antigone, a new version of The House of Bernarda Alba and Communion (2003). He edited Immediate Man: Cuimhní ar Chearbhall Ó Dálaigh. He works as a radio drama producer in RTE.
Aidan Carl Mathews Titles
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Exit/Entrance
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Minding Ruth
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Videos
Ciaran Berry reads ‘Slow Set’ from The Dead Zoo (2013).
Ciaran Berry reads ‘At Ballyconneely.’
‘For the Birds’ by Ciaran Berry.