Publications

Literary CV

Poetry

Playgrounds, forthcoming

Gods of Babel, Salmon, Ireland, 2011

Het Feestmaal, Meulenhoff, Holland, 1997

Materiaal, Ambo/de Prom, Holland, 1991

Sterkwater, Ambo/de Prom, 1985

Poetry Translations

Erotic Poems of Verlaine and Rimbaud, Vassalucci, Amsterdam, 1994

Novels

The State of Dark, Lilliput Press, Dublin 2022

Gael, Telegram/Saqi Books, London, 2006

De Beul, Meulenhoff, Holland, 2000

Argelozen in het Circus, Toth, Holland, 1992

Radio Plays

‘Confinement’, broadcast on RTE 1 on 24 January 2021

https://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_dramaonone.xml

Selected Anthologies

Who By Water, The Globe and Scales, Marrowbone Books 2020

The State of Dark, Clifden 35, Clifden Arts Week 2012

I Named You New York, Like Light, Brighthill Press, New York, 2017

Two Poems, Praktik, Celbrating Irish Muse, Delhi, India, 2017

Today, The Stony Thursday Book 40th Anniversary Edition, Limerick 2015

The State of Dark, Clifden 35, Clifden Arts Week 2012

The Shofar, A Treasury Of Sunday Miscellany, New Island, Dublin 2009

Poems          Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland, The Dedalus Press, Dublin 2010

Poems, Raven Introductions 5, Dublin 1988

Magazine Publications

Poetry and prose published in De Revisor, Surplus, Perdu, Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift, Hollands Maandblad, Lover, The Stinging Fly, Cyphers, Poetry Ireland Review, The Cimarron Review, The New Review, Levure/Literaire European Anthology, Pratik, the Burning Bush

Selected Articles and Reviews

‘Auschwitz 75 years on’, The Irish Times, January 2020

‘The Making of a Muslim Rebel’, The Irish Times, February 2007

‘Tackling The anti-Islam backlash’ The Irish Times, July 2005

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2020 Arts Council of Ireland Covid – 19 Response Award

2020 Residency, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

2018 The Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowships

2012 Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary

2008 Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary

2008 Francis MacManus Short Story Competition, shortlisted for ‘Pirates’

2007 Francis MacManus Short Story Competition, shortlisted for ‘Where is the Party?’

2003 Arts Council of Ireland Mobility Award

1990 Prix de l’Academie Francaise

Shows and performances

‘Molly Says No!’ a one-woman show commissioned for Bloomsday Centenary celebrations 2004. The show has been performed more than 100 times in Ireland, France, the USA, India, Tunisia, and the UK.

‘1916: A Revolutionary Cabaret’, performed April 10th 2017, commissioned by Grangegorman Public Art, GDA.