Matthew Sweeney

Matthew Sweeney (born 1952 Donegal, Ireland) is an Irish poet.

Life

He graduated from Gormanston College, Polytechnic of North London and University of Freiburg, in 1979.

He had residencies at the University of East Anglia, and South Bank Centre.^[1]

He has lived for many years in London.^[2]

Awards

• 1984 New Statesman Prudence Farmer Award
• 1987 Cholmondeley Award
• 1999 Arts Council Writers' Award
• 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist)
• 2008 Poetry Now Award (shortlist) for his collection, Black Moon.

Works

Poetry

• The Night Post. Salt. 2010. ISBN 9781844714841. 
• Black Moon. Cape. 2007. ISBN 9780224080927. 
• Sanctuary. Cape. 2004. ISBN 9780224073455. 
• Selected Poems. Cape. 2002. ISBN 9780224062121.  (Canadian edition, A Picnic on Ice, Signal Editions, Vehicule Press 2002)
• Up on the Roof: New and Selected Poems. Illustrator David Austen. Faber. 2001. ISBN 9780571207282. 
• A Smell of Fish. Cape. 2000. ISBN 9780224060677. 
• The Bridal Suite. Cape. 1997. ISBN 9789984510750. 
• Cacti. Secker & Warburg. 1992. ISBN 9780436508424. 
• Blue Shoes. Secker & Warburg. 1989. 
• The Lame Waltzer. Allison & Busby. 1985. ISBN 9780850316445. 
• A Round House. Allison & Busby. 1983. ISBN 9780906897669. 
• A Dream of Maps. Dublin: Raven Arts Press. 1981. ISBN 9780906897171. 

Editor

• Irish Poems. Macmillan. 2005. ISBN 9780333987483. 
• The New Faber Book of Children's Verse. Faber. 2001. ISBN 9780571219056. 
• Ken Smith, Matthew Sweeney, Felix Post, ed (1997). Beyond Bedlam: Poems Written out of Mental Distress. Anvil Press Poetry. ISBN 9780856462962. 
• Jo Shapcott, Matthew Sweeney, ed (1996). Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times. Faber. ISBN 9780571172078. 

Criticism

• Writing Poetry (Teach Yourself series, with John Hartley Williams). Hodder. 1997. ISBN 9780340867648. 

References

1. ^ http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth102
2. ^ http://www.writersartists.net/ms2.htm#biography

External links

• "Author's website"
• Ireland - Poetry International Web, author page with poem audio files
• Some Sweeney Poems [1]
• 'Review of The Night Post http://carolinemarycrew.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/matthew-sweeneys-the-night-post-a-new-selection/

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