Desmond Egan Bibliography
GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS
The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature The Influential Irish (Dublin 2006)
The Gill Encyclopaedia of Ireland Modern Irish Writers : a Biography Modern Irish Lives
Dictionary of Irish Literature Who’s Who in Ireland
Woven Shades of Green (USA, 2019)
CRITICAL STUDIES
Kenner, Hugh (ed). Desmond Egan: the Poet and his Work.
Arkins Brian. Desmond Egan: A Critical Study.
POETRY IN ENGLISH
Midland. 1973 o/p .
Leaves. 1975 o/p .
Siege!. 1976 o/p.
Woodcutter. 1978 o/p.
Athlone?. 1980 o/p.
Snapdragon. 1981 limited ed. o/p.
Seeing Double. 1983.
A Song for my Father. 1983 o/p .
Poems for Eimear. 1990 limited ed. o/p.
Peninsula. 1990.
Prelude. 1999 o/p.
In the Holocaust of Autumn. 1994.
Famine 1997. reprinted 2012.
Music. 2000.
The Hill of Allen. 2001 o/p.
The Outdoor Light. 2005 .
Short Circuits. Limited Edition of 100. 2008.
Athlone. Limited Edition of 40 with poem in manuscript. 2010.
Athlone Athlone 2010.
Hopkins in Kildare. 2012.
Epic. 2015.
PROSE COLLECTIONS
The Death of Metaphor. 1983 o/p.
The Bronze Horseman. 2008.
Hopeful Hopkins. 2017.
TRANSLATIONS OF GREEK DRAMA
Medea by Euripides.
Philoctetes by Sophocles .