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Theo Dorgan was born in Cork, 1953. He is a poet who is also a novelist, non-fiction prose writer, editor, translator, broadcaster, librettist and documentary scriptwriter. He has published five books of poetry. His most recent collections are Greek, published 2012 and Nine Bright Shiners, published in 2014, both from Dedalus Press.
His two prose accounts of crossing the Atlantic under sail, Sailing For Home and Time on the Ocean; A Voyage from Cape Horn to Cape Town, won wide acclaim, as has his recently published first novel, Making Way (New Island Books, 2013).
His translations of the Slovenian poet Barbara Korun, Songs of Earth and Light, were published by Southword Editions in 2005.
His own work has been translated into many languages. Two full collections have been published in Italian, and a selected poems in French. La Hija de Safo was published by Ediciones Hiperion, Madrid, in 2001
He has been editor of, among other titles, Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh, A Book of Uncommon Prayer, the anthologies La Paume Ouverte, What we Fou Broadcast media work: Irish poet, editor and librettist Theo Dorgan is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer, translator, librettist and documentary screenwriter.[1] He lives in Dublin. Dorgan was born in Cork in 1953[citation needed] being the second child born into a family of eight boys and eight girls to parents Bertie and Rosemary Dorgan, and was educated in North Monastery School. He completed a BA in English and philosophy and a MA in English at University College Cork, after which he tutored and lectured at that university, while simultaneously being literature officer at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork.[2] He was visiting faculty at the University of Southern Maine.[3] He lives in Dublin with his partner, the poet and playwright Paula Meehan.[citation needed] After Dorgan's first two poetry collections, The Ordinary House of Love and Rosa Mundi, went out of print, Dedalus Press reissued these two titles in a single volume What This Earth Cost Us.[4] He has also published selec
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Born in Cork, 1953.
Educated through the medium of Irish.
BA in English and Philosophy
MA in English from University College Cork.
Tutored and lectured in English Department of University, 1977-1979 while simultaneously Literature Officer with Triskel Arts Centre.
Co-Director Cork Film Festival, 1986 - 1989.
Director of Poetry Ireland, the national poetry organisation, 1989-2000.
He was elected a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s academy of the arts, in 1999.
He served on The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon from 2003 to 2008
In 1990-1991 he was assistant director on Pages for the Great Book of Ireland, a film commissioned from Gandon Productions for RTE which explored the ma •
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