Ciaran Berry
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Life
He grew up in Carna, County Galway, and Falcarragh, County Donegal.{{cite web|url=https://www.poetrynow.ie/Poetry_Strong.pdf |title=The Strong Reading and Award for Best First Collection |publisher=Poetry Now |access-date=2009-07-23 }}{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web |url=http://www.poemoftheweek.org/id216.html |title=Ciaran Berry - Bio |publisher=Poem of the Week |date=2009-01-25 |access-date=2009-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727181423/http://www.poemoftheweek.org/id216.html |archive-date=2011-07-27 |url-status=dead }}
He graduated from New York University, a New York Times Fellow.
He teaches at Trinity College, Hartford.{{cite web |url=http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1353304 |title=Faculty Profiles |access-date=2009-11-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720062238/http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1353304 |archive-date=2011-07-20 }}
His work appeared in Gulf Coast,{{cite web|url=http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=2&si=47&s=2961 |title=Sideshow |author=Ciaran Berry |publisher=Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts |access-date=2012-06-27}} AGNI,{{cite web |url=http://as111.http.sasm3.net/agni/authors/C/Ciaran-Berry.html |title=Author Ciaran Berry |publisher=AGNI Magazine |year=2008 |access-date=2009-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724054954/http://as111.http.sasm3.net/agni/authors/C/Ciaran-Berry.html |archive-date=2011-07-24 |url-status=dead }} Crazyhorse,{{cite web |author=Clayton McCauley |url=http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/in-71.html |title=Crazyhorse Number 71 |publisher=Crazyhorse.cofc.edu |access-date=2009-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080116101700/http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/in-71.html |archive-date=2008-01-16 |url-status=dead }} The Missouri Review,{{cite web|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/missouri_review/v028/28.3berry02.html |title=The Missouri Review - A Beard of Bees |publisher=Project MUSE |date=Winter 2005 |access-date=2009-07-23}}
The Threepenny Review,{{cite web|url=http://www.threepennyreview.com/tocs/101_sp05.html |title=Threepenny: Issue 101 |publisher=The Threepenny Review |date=Spring 2005 |access-date=2009-07-23}} Gettysburg Review,{{cite web|url=http://public.gettysburg.edu/academics/gettysburg_review/Back_Issues/154.htm |title=Winter 2002 | the gettysburg review |publisher=The Gettysburg Review |date=Winter 2002 |access-date=2009-07-23}} Green Mountains Review,{{cite web |url=http://greenmountainsreview.jsc.vsc.edu/Vol%20XVIII-1%20Table%20of%20Contents.htm |title=Vol. XVIII, No. 1 |publisher=Green Mountains Review |access-date=2009-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819174000/http://greenmountainsreview.jsc.vsc.edu/Vol%20XVIII-1%20Table%20of%20Contents.htm |archive-date=2009-08-19 |url-status=dead }} Ontario Review,{{cite web |url=http://www.ontarioreviewpress.com/or_back_issues_pages/or_back_issue_65.html |title=Ontario Review Press -- Current Issue |access-date=2009-07-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070711061758/http://www.ontarioreviewpress.com/or_back_issues_pages/or_back_issue_65.html |archive-date=2007-07-11 }} and Notre Dame Review.
Awards
- 2007 Crab Orchard Award
- Jerwood Aldeburgh first collection prize{{cite web|last=Flood |first=Alison |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/nov/08/jerwood-aldeburgh-prize-ciaran-berry |title=Sphere of Birds wins Jerwood Aldeburgh prize: Ciaran Berry's debut collection takes £3,000 award |work=The Guardian |date=2008-11-08 |access-date=2009-07-23}}
- 2012 Whiting Award{{cite web |url=http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/lifestyle/home-and-garden/donegal-poet-takes-us-literary-prize-1-4468928 |title=Donegal poet takes US literary prize |newspaper=Donegal Democrat |date=2012-11-12 |access-date=2012-11-12 |archive-date=25 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121125092734/http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/lifestyle/home-and-garden/donegal-poet-takes-us-literary-prize-1-4468928 |url-status=dead }}
Bibliography
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=Poetry=
==Collections==
- {{cite book| author=Berry, Ciaran |title=The Sphere of Birds| publisher=Southern Illinois University Press| year=2008| isbn = 9780809328383 |oclc = 836596491}}
- {{cite book| author=Berry, Ciaran |author-mask=1 |title=The Dead Zoo |publisher=The Gallery Press| year=2013| isbn = 9781852355692 |oclc = 864085140 }}
- {{cite book| author=Berry, Ciaran |author-mask=1 |title=Liner Notes |publisher=The Gallery Press| year=2018| isbn =9781911337478 |oclc = 1053582826}}
==List of poems==
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| Electrocuting an elephant
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=Critical studies and reviews of Berry's work=
- {{cite journal |author=Cooke, Belinda |date=Jun–Jul 2014 |title=Nasty, brutish and short |journal=The London Magazine |pages=99–104 |url= }} Review of The dead zoo.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110727181529/http://www.poemoftheweek.org/id217.html "An Interview with Ciaran Berry", Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum]
- [http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/ciaran-berry#/ Profile at The Whiting Foundation]
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Category:New York University alumni
Category:New York University faculty
Category:Writers from County Donegal
Category:Writers from County Galway
Category:Irish emigrants to the United States
Category:21st-century American poets