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Terry McDonagh
Terry
McDonagh is a poet and dramatist of international acclaim. He has published
several collections of poetry, a book of letters, a novel for young people and,
in 2006, a collection of poetry for young people, BOXES. He has been writer in
residence in Australia, Asia, several European countries and Ireland where he
was resident writer in Coole Park, County Galway 2006. His work has been
translated into German and Indonesian, grant aided by Ireland Literature
Exchange. He has recently begun an exciting project combining poetry and music
with uilleann piper, Diarmaid Moynihan. They had their first public performance
in the Arts Centre in Galway to a very appreciative audience. He was runner-up
in the Fish
Poetry Prize 2006.
Terry McDonagh was born in Cill
Aodáin, Kiltimagh, Co Mayo
in 1946. His plays include The Dark Side of a Dream; Anything for a Fiver; I
wanted to bring you flowers (translated as Ich kann das alles erklären);
Eternity Under Lucifer the First; and Children of the Whip.
His first collection of poems, The Road Out, was published in Hamburg in 1993 by
Olaf Hille Verlag. His subsequent collections include At Home In My Shoes
(Celtic Corner Verlag, Hamburg, 1997); A World Without Stone/New and Selected
Poems (Hamburg, Blaupause-Verlag, 1998); A Song for Joanna, Hamburg-Melbourne A
Journal in Verse (Hamburg, Blaupause Books, 2003). I'm On A Train - Twelve
Strange Songs are based on twelve poems from The Road Out and have been put
to music for voice and string quartet by Eberhart Reichel. Elbe Letters Go West/Briefe von der Elbe was published by Blaupause in 1999. He has also
published a novel for children, One Summer in Ireland (Stuttgart, Ernst Klett
Verlag, 2002).
An English-German selection of his poems, Kiltimagh (Hamburg, Blaupause, 2001)
was grant-aided by the Irish
Literature Exchange. His selected poems were translated into and published
in Indonesian as Tiada Tempat di Rawa/No Places in The Marshes (Yogyakarta,
Indonesia, Indonesiatera, 2004).
He lives in Hamburg
and Cill Aodáin.
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