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September
Elegies |
Spiderwoman's
Third Avenue Rhapsody |
Unlegendary
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Five collections of poetry, including The Place of Miracles: New and Selected Poems, New Island Books 2006.
Three with Salmon Publishing, and one with Lapwing Publications, Belfast. Reading the Sunflowers in September (1990), was nominated for an Irish Times Literature Award; Spiderwoman's
Third Avenue Rhapsody was also nominated for an Irish Times Literature
Award in 1993, and Unlegendary Heroes appeared
in 1998. Selections from her work have been translated into French, Rumanian,
and more recently, Chinese. She has translated a selection of work by
the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann.
Her new collection of short stories, Storm Over Belfast is published in 2008 by New Island Books.
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| The Light-Makers |
Strong Pagans |
The Elysium Testament |
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Fiction includes the best-selling literary
novel The Light-Makers, 1992 & 1993 (named
The Sunday Tribune's Best New Irish Novel 1992); Virgin
and the Boy, 1996 and a collection of short stories, Strong
Pagans, 1991.
Her critically acclaimed third novel, The Elysium
Testament, was published by Trident Press in the UK and Ireland
last year.
Poems, essays and translations have appeared
in literary magazines and journals such as Irish Studies Review, Poetry
Ireland Review, The Honest Ulsterman, WP Journal, Krino, Irish University
Review, Cork Literary Review, The SHOp, TriQuarterly (Florida), The Seneca
Review, The Literary Review (NJ), Solo (CA), Artlife (CA) Oxford Poetry
(UK), Poetry Review (UK), Orbis (UK), The Whoseday Book, The Great Book
of Ireland.
Her work has been anthologised in:
- Irish Women: Writings Past and Present (ed. Katie Donovan, Gill and
Macmillan);
- The White Page/An Bhileog Bhan, (ed. Joan McBreen, Salmon)
- The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Irish Women's Writing and
Traditions).
- Mothers and Daughters: Irish Short Stories (ed. David Marcus, Bloomsbury);
- The Irish Eros: Irish Short Stories and Poems on Sexual Themes (ed.
David Marcus, Gill and Macmillan);
- In Sunshine or in Shadow: Stories by Irish Women (Delcorte Press,
USA);
- Cutting the Night in Two: Short Stories by Irish Women Writers (ed.
Evelyn Conlon and Hans-Christian Oeser, New Island Books;
- Phoenix Irish Short Stories 2000 (ed. David Marcus, Phoenix);
- The Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction: A Celebration of New IrishWriting
(ed. Dermot Bolger and Ciaran Carty, New Island Books;
- Writers' Week Award-Winning Short Stories 1973-1994 (ed. David Marcus,
Marino Books)
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