Ciaran Berry
Ciaran Berry (born 15 November 1971) is an Irish-American poet.
Ciaran Berry
- Name
- Ciaran Berry
- Born
- 15 November 1971
- Birthplace
- Dublin, Ireland
- Education
- New York University
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Occupation
- poet
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Ciaran Berry (born 15 November 1971) is an Irish-American poet.
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• Name — Ciaran Berry • Born — 15 November 1971 • Birthplace — Dublin, Ireland • Education — New York University • Genre — Poetry Ciaran Berry (born 15 November 1971) is an Irish-American poet.
Life
Life
Born in Dublin, Berry grew up in Carna, County Galway, and Falcarragh, County Donegal. He graduated from New York University, a New York Times Fellow. He teaches at Trinity College, Hartford. His work appeared in Gulf Coast, AGNI, Crazyhorse, The Missouri Review, The Threepenny Review, Gettysburg Review, Green Mountains Review, Ontario Review, and Notre Dame Review.
List of poems
List of poems
• Title — |Year — |First published — |Reprinted/collected • Electrocuting an elephant — * * * Poem of the Week - 25 January 2009
Critical studies and reviews of Berry's work
Critical studies and reviews of Berry's work
• Review of The dead zoo.
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- “Ciaran Berry”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Sounding the Anthropocene in the Poetry of Ciaran Berry, Études irlandaises, 2024
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Awards
• 2007 Crab Orchard Award • Jerwood Aldeburgh first collection prize • 2012 Whiting Award
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- 1.Poetry Now. The Strong Reading and Award for Best First Collection. November 2016.
- 2.Poem of the Week. Ciaran Berry - Bio. 25 January 2009.
- 3.Faculty Profiles.
- 4.Ciaran Berry. Sideshow. Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.
- 5.AGNI Magazine. Author Ciaran Berry. 2008.
- 6.Clayton McCauley. Crazyhorse Number 71. Crazyhorse.cofc.edu.
- 7.Project MUSE. The Missouri Review - A Beard of Bees. Winter 2005.
- 8.The Threepenny Review. Threepenny: Issue 101. Spring 2005.
- 9.The Gettysburg Review. Winter 2002 | the gettysburg review. Winter 2002.
- 10.Green Mountains Review. Vol. XVIII, No. 1.
- 11.Ontario Review Press -- Current Issue.
- 12.Flood, Alison. Sphere of Birds wins Jerwood Aldeburgh prize: Ciaran Berry's debut collection takes £3,000 award. The Guardian. 8 November 2008.
- 13.Donegal poet takes US literary prize. Donegal Democrat. 12 November 2012.
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