- Trevor Joyce
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name = Trevor Joyce
caption = Trevor Joyce speaking at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Los Angeles.
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portaldisp =Trevor Joyce (born
26 October 1947 ) is an Irishpoet , born inDublin .He co-founded New Writers' Press in Dublin in 1967 and was a founding editor of NWP's "
The Lace Curtain ; A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism" in 1968.Early books include "Sole Glum Trek" (1967), "Watches" (1968), "Pentahedron" (1972) and "The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine" (1976). The last of these is a version of the Middle-Irish "
Buile Shuibhne ", well known fromSeamus Heaney 's later translation in "Sweeney Astray " (1983).After a near-total silence for twenty years, he resumed publishing in 1995 with "stone floods", followed by "Syzygy" and "Without Asylum" (1998).
Joyce's poetry employs a wide range of forms and techniques, ranging from traditional to modern experimentalism. He has published notable versions from Chinese and from the middle-Irish, which he refers to as "workings" rather than "translations" to emphasize that they are poetic reimaginings in the tradition of
Ezra Pound rather than "straight" translations.A collected poems up to 2000, including his "workings" from the Irish and Chinese, was published as "with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold" (2001). He has also experimented with web-based poetry projects such as the collaborative project "OffSets". A collection of his post-"with the first dream" work, "What's in Store", was published in 2007, and a separate collection of new and old translations from the Irish entitled "Courts of Air and Earth" is scheduled for release in 2007-2008 from Shearsman.
He is a
Fulbright Scholar and a member ofAosdána .External links
* [http://soundeye.org/trevorjoyce/index.htm Trevor Joyce's homepage]
* [http://www.soundeye.org/trevorjoyce/chicagoreview.htm Review Article (Chicago Review)]
* [http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/meshworks/archive/Joyce_Trevor.html Video of reading at 2005 SoundEye Festival]
* [http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/XCP/XCP_62_Joyce.mp3 MP3 of radio interview for Cross-Cultural Poetics at PennSound]
* [http://www.ndorward.com/poetry/books/whatsinstore_sampler.pdf Selection of poems from "What's in Store"]
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