Michael Smith (poet)
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Michael Smith |
Born |
(1942-09-01)1 September 1942 Dublin, Ireland |
Died |
16 November 2014(2014-11-16) (aged 72) Dublin, Ireland
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Occupation |
Poet, translator |
Nationality |
Irish |
Genre |
Poetry |
Literary movement |
Modernism |
Spouse |
Irene Smith |
Children |
3 |
Michael Smith (1942-2014) was an Irish poet, author and translator.
A member of Aosdána, the Irish National Academy of Artists, Michael Smith was the first Writer in-Residence to be appointed by University College, Dublin and was an Honorary Fellow of UCD. He was a poet who gave a lifetime of service to the art of poetry both in English and Spanish. He has been described as a classical modernist, a poet of modern life.
Smith founded New Writers Press in Dublin in 1967 (together with Trevor Joyce and his wife, Irene Smith) and was responsible for the publication of over seventy books and magazines. He was founder and editor of the influential literary magazine The Lace Curtain. From 1984 to 1989 he was a member of the Arts Council. He has translated into English and published some of the most difficult and exhilarating poets in Spanish, including Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Hernández (Unceasing Lightning) and the two great Spanish masters of the baroque, Francisco de Quevedo and Luis de Góngora. He has also translated Gerardo Diego's Manual de espumas, a Selected Poems of José Hierro and selections of the poems of Jiménez and Luis Cernuda, among others. In 2001 he received the prestigious translating award, the European Academy Medal, for his translation of great Spanish poets. His own poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies of Irish poetry, including The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry. Among his most recent books are The Purpose of the Gift: Selected Poems and Maldon and Other Translations (NWP/ Shearsman). His poetry has been translated into Spanish, Polish, French and German. Among his most recent publications are Selected Poems of Rosalía de Castro, The Prison Poems of Miguel Hernández (Parlor Press) and, with Luis Ingelmo, Complete Poems of Claudio Rodriguéz (Shearsman Books), as well as Complete Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. In 2009, Shearsman has published his Collected Poems. With the Peruvian scholar Valentin Gianuzzi, he has translated and published (Shearsman Books) the complete poems of César Vallejo in four volumes. In 2009 he translated a selection of poems of the Spanish poet Juan Antonio Villacañas in collaboration with Beatriz Villacañas: Juan Antonio Villacañas: Selected Poems (Shearsman Books).
External links
Brief bio at New Writers Press site (retrieved 8 May 2005)
Article on poet Michael Hartnett, as featured in The Irish Times
- Bio at Aosdána webpage
Irish poetry
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Topics |
- Irish poetry
- Chief Ollam of Ireland
- Irish bardic poetry
- Irish Literary Revival
- Metrical Dindshenchas
- Contention of the bards
- Aisling
- Weaver Poets
- An Gúm
- Kildare Poems
- Táin Bó Cúailnge
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Poets |
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Poems |
Anthologies |
- Faber Book of Irish Verse
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Epics |
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Bardic |
- Timna Cathaír Máir Caithréim Cellaig
- Le dís cuirthear clú Laighean
- Is acher in gaíth in-nocht...
- Is trúag in ces i mbiam
- Sen dollotar Ulaid ...
- Sorrow is the worst thing in life ...
- An Díbirt go Connachta
- Foraire Uladh ar Aodh
- A aonmhic Dé do céasadh thrínn
- A theachtaire tig ón Róimh
- An sluagh sidhe so i nEamhuin?
- Cóir Connacht ar chath Laighean
- Dia libh a laochruidh Gaoidhiol
- Pangur Bán
- Liamuin
- Buile Shuibhne
- The Prophecy of Berchán
- Bean Torrach, fa Tuar Broide
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18th century |
- The Traveller
- Suantraí dá Mhac Tabhartha
- Mná na hÉireann
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19th century |
- Tone's Grave
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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Contemporary |
- Love Songs of Connacht
- Hi Uncle Sam
- Meeting The British
- Horse Latitudes
- Sweeney Astray
- Prayer Before Birth
- D-Day
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Organizations |
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Publications |
- Poetry Ireland Review
- The Lace Curtain
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Events |
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Authority control
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- ISNI: 0000 0001 1452 5201
- LCCN: n84067508
- SNAC: w6pn98zv
- SUDOC: 028331338
- VIAF: 95705404
- WorldCat Identities (via VIAF): 95705404
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