Greetings To Our Friends In Brazil - Paul Durcan
Paul Durcan was born in Dublin in 1944, of Co Mayo parents. His first book, Endsville (with Brian Lynch), appeared in 1967, and has been followed by many others including The Selected Paul Durcan, (Poetry Ireland Choice, 1982), The Berlin Wall Cafe (Poetry Book Society Choice, 1985), Crazy About Women (1994) and A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems. He has been a recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Whitbread Poetry Award for Daddy, Daddy, in 1990. He has been writer-in-residence in Trinity College Dublin and is a member of Aosdana.
Greetings to our Friends in Brazil is published by The Harvill Press
Opened Ground - Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in Co Derry where he grew up on a farm. In 1956 he took up a scholarship to Queen's University, Belfast. In 1972 he gave up teaching to devote more time to writing, and moved with his family to Glanmore in Co Wicklow, and later to Dublin. He was appointed to the Arts Council in 1974 and served until 1979. He is a member of Aosdana. His numerous collections have received many prizes, including the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize (1975), the American Irish Foundation Literary Award (1973) and the W.H. Smith Annual Award (1976). In 1987 he was awarded the Whitbread Award for The Haw Lantern. In October 1995, Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Opened Ground is published by Faber
Selected Poems - Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian was born in 1950 in Belfast, where she lives with her family. Among the prizes she has won are the National Poetry Competition in England, The Cheltenham Award, The Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, The Rooney Prize, and the Bass Ireland Award for Literature 1991. She has been writer-in-residence at Queen's University, Belfast, and Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. The Gallery Press also published The Flower Master and Other Poems, Venus and the Rain, On Ballycastle Beach and Mar- coni's Cottage, which was short-listed for The Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish Literature Prize for Poetry in 1992, and Captain Lavender. In 1998 Medbh McGuckian received the American Ireland Fund Literary Award.
Selected Poems is published by Gallery Press