Michael Coady
In Poetry Ireland Review Terence Brown noted the warm emotional openness of his work ‘in which generous feeling and a respect for individuals and the shared quality of life itself find engaging expression’
Michael Coady was born in 1939 in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary where he still lives. Winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry in 1979 and the O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award (2004), he held the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University in Spring 2005.
He has published six collections with The Gallery Press: Two for a Woman, Three for a Man (1980), Oven Lane (1987, a Poetry Ireland Choice. Revised 2014), All Souls (1997), One Another (2003), Going By Water (2009) and Given Light (2017). Relay Books published Full Tide, a miscellany, in 1999.
The epic story of Irish emigration to America has been a significant element in his work in relation to lost family ties and their ’emotional archaeology’. In his critically-acclaimed All Souls, and again in One Another and Going By Water, he successfully integrated poetry, prose and his own photographs in works of orchestrated unity. His writing emerges from an intimately known anchorage of place, with abiding themes of transience and continuity, chance and memory, set against the human interplay of unsung lives and destinies. Humour and compassion are notable in his work, as is musical reference: a self-styled ‘lapsed trombonist’, his sustaining passion for music ranges eclectically from classical to jazz and Irish traditional music and in 1996 he self-published The Well of Spring Water, a personal memoir of longstanding friends, the Clare musicians Pakie and Micho Russell.
Michael Coady Titles
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Given Light
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One Another
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Oven Lane and Other Poems
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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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