Mairtín Crawford

Mairtín Crawford (November 1967 – January 11, 2004) was a poet and journalist who was born and educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He co-founded and edited the Big Spoon literary arts magazine in the 1990s, was production and arts editor of Fortnight magazine, was a creative writing tutor at (amongst other places) the Crescent Arts Centre for eight years, and was appointed Director of Between The Lines arts festival for 2004.

Mairtín brought "Beat" poet Allen Ginsberg to Belfast in 1993 for two public reading events. Among several trips to the USA, in 2001 (as the recipient of an Arts Council Individual Artists’ Award) Mairtín travelled west and met with NASA personnel to research a book of poetry dealing with the concept and implications of space flight. Some of the resulting poems are published in his (posthumous) Selected Poems.

Bibliography

• Selected Poems (Lagan Press, 2005)

External links

• Arts Council of Northern Ireland
• Irish Times

See also

Poetry portal

• List of Northern Irish writers

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Name	Crawford, Mairtin
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Date of birth	1967
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Date of death	January 11, 2004
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