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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 .


COLLECTIONS

Collected Poems. 1983. reprinted 1984 o/p

Poems for Peace. 1986 o/p.

Selected Poems. ed. Hugh Kenner. 1992

Elegies Selected Poems. 1996.

BOOKS IN TRANSLATION

(dual language unless otherwise stated)


French (7)

Terre et Paix. 1989 tr. Patrick Rafroidi, Daniel Jacquin et al.

Holocauste d’Autumne. 1998 tr. Jean Poncet.

Peninsula. 1996 tr. Jean Paul Blot.

Elegies 2000 tr. Bruno Gaurier.

Music et Autres Poemes. 2005 tr. Jean Paul Blot.
(Prix du livres Insulaires, 2005).

Athlone. 2015 tr. Bruno Gaurier.

Famine. 2018 tr. Bruno Gaurier

German (2)

Meine Geschichte der Irischen Dichtung/ My Irish Poem.s 1995. tr. S.Kohl; M. Pfister et al.

Gedichte/ Poems. 1999. tr. U. Borgmann/ S. Kohl .

Dutch

Echobogen/ Echo Arches. 1990. tr. P Nijmeijer.

Russian (2)

Selected Poems. 1999 tr. Alla Savtchenko, Maria Popova.

Poems 2000. tr. Alla Savtchenko.


Italian (4)

Quel Sole Storno Che Gelido Passa. 1992. tr. G. Serpillo Poesie.

Scelte/ Selected Poems. 1994. tr. F. Marroni Carestia.

Famine. 2000. tr. D. Abbate Badin.

Un Poeta di Irlanda 1990 tr. E. Bonventre


Spanish

De Hambruna/ Famine 2002 tr. Marcus Hormiga


Czech (2)

Smiluj nad Basnikem/ Have Mercy on the Poet 1992 tr. Ivana Bozdechová DESpectrum (CD included) Poems and appreciations 2002 /2007 tr. Ivana Bozdechová

Chinese

September Dandelion. 2008. tr. Jin Wenning


Polish

Poezje Wybrane/ Selected Poems. 2002. tr. Aleksandra Kedzierska


Japanese

Paper Cranes. 1995. tr. Akira Yasukawa et al.


Greek

Poiemata/ Poems. 2001. tr. G. Ghinis.


Croatian (2)

Christ in Connaught Street. 2009. tr. Emil Cic .

Elegies 2018. tr. Nikola Duretic.


Hungarian

Selected Poems. 2000. tr. Tomas Kabdebo.


Bulgarian

Selected Poems. 1999. tr. D. Paryeba.


Slovenian

Too Little Peace/ Selected Poems. 2007. tr. Robert Simonisek.


Swedish

How Lonely the Soul. tr. Lena Koster. 2019.

EDITOR

Poiemata. 1972.

Focus. (with Eoghan O Tuairisc). 1972 .

Choice An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. with Michael Hartnet.t 1973.

The Deserted Village edited, with Introduction 1974, reprinted 1977

Bourke Brian.Marcel Marceau Drawings Introduction 1978

Bourke Brian. Catalogue of his Work. editor 1982. Lost in the Woods Introduction,1992

James McKenna; A Celebration ed. with Introduction 2007

James McKenna The Complete Catalogue ed. with Introduction 2008


REVIEW EDITOR

Era Magazine 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 1975 to 1978

POSTER POEMS

Requiem Illustrated by Charles Cullen

Listening to John McCormack Illustrated by Charles Cullen

Needing the Sea Illustrated by Alex Sadkowski

Brother Sister Chile Illustrated by Kathy Owens

For Benjamin Moloise Illustrated by James McKenna

First Communion: For Rudy Romano. Illustrated by Henry Flanagan.

Understanding God Too Quickly In Topeka. Illustrated by John Hunter .

For Bill Langdon. Illustrated by Wilhelm Fockersperger.

Freedom. Illustrated by Wilhelm Fockersperger .

Peace. illustrated by Brian Bourke .

Forget Me Not

Requiem. illus. by James McKenna. 2018.

AWARDS etc.

The National Poetry Foundation of USA Award. 1983. Chicago Haymarket Literary Award. 1987

The Farrell Prize. 1989.

Stanford Prize 1990

Honorary Doctorate in Literature, Washburn University. USA. 1996.

Bologna (Italy) Literary Award. 1998.

Premio Anfiosso Literary Award (Italy) 2001

Literary Award of Macedonia. 2004.

Ouessant (France) International Literary Award 2005. Arpino (Italy): Il Libro di Pietra plaque 2010 Newbridge Town Culture Award 2012

Kildare County Council Literature Award 2015 IBAM Chicago Literature Award 2015

OFFICES HELD

Founder and Artistic Director, The Gerard Manley Hopkins International Festival 1987 to present Juror The Neustadt International Literature Award University of Oklahoma 1999

Cultural Relations Committee, Dept. of Foreign Affairs two terms: 2000 to 2006 Hon. President, The Classical Society of Ireland, 2004

PORTRAITS

Brian Bourke 1972

Triptique 1988

Charles Cullen 1974

Alex Sadkowsky 1982

Wilhelm Fockersperger c.10 times Chinese Artist 1990

James McKenna 1998

ESSAYS PUBLISHED

various Countries incl. USA, UK, France, Germany, Ireland

CONFERENCE LECTURER/READER USA

Italy Sardinia France UK; German;y Spain; Macedonia; Belgium; Croatia; Nicaragua; Austria; South Korea (Keynote) China; Japan; Sweden; Ireland: W.B. Yeats Conference; First Creative Writing Director Patrick Kavanagh Weekend ; UCD First Poet in Residence; Galway Classical Conference; John Broderick Weekend, Athlone; Ireland Classical Society Presidential Address NUI Maynooth; French and English Groups The Hopkins Festival; Michael Hartnett Weekend, Dublin.

SELECTED ARTICLES

The Book of Kells Art and Antiques. USA. c.1990.

Peter Connolly. The Furrow.

The Dominicans of Galway. 1991.

Patrick Kavanagh in P.K. Man and Poet. USA. 1991.

Happy Hopkins. Studies. Winter 2012.

Art and Illness 2nd World Humanities Forum Proceedings. 2012.

Gabriel Marcel. Kansas Journal. 2019.

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