Geoffrey Squires
{{short description|Irish poet (born 1942)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{EngvarB|date=March 2020}}
Geoffrey Squires (born 16 November 1942,{{cite web | title=Geoffrey Squires| work=Shearsman Magazine issue 69/70 | url=http://www.shearsman.com/pages/magazine/back_issues/shearsman69_70/squires.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314224056/https://www.shearsman.com/pages/magazine/back_issues/shearsman69_70/squires.html |archive-date=14 March 2007 | access-date=23 July 2021}} in Derry, Northern Ireland) is an Irish poet who works in what might loosely be termed the modernist tradition.
Early life
While born in Derry, he grew up in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. He read English at Cambridge, and gained a PhD in multi-media instructional systems in adult education from the University of Edinburgh in 1970.{{Cite web |last=T.C. |first=Squires, Geoffrey |date=1970 |title=Multi-media instructional systems in adult education, with special reference to information retrieval from textbooks |url=http://hdl.handle.net/1842/17653 |language=en |hdl=1842/17653}} During his career, Squires translated poems that were written in the Persian language and French language. His early work was influenced by the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson.{{fact|date=March 2020}}
Later life
Between the mid 1970s and mid 1990s, Squires wrote poetry and submitted education journal articles. By the 2000s, Squires began working for the University of Hull in charge of their education department while also working as a reader.{{cite web| title=Untitled and Other Poems| work=Stride Magazine| url=http://stridemagazine.co.uk/2004/nov/lovelock.squires.htm| access-date=3 March 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175353/http://stridemagazine.co.uk/2004/nov/lovelock.squires.htm| archive-date=3 March 2016| url-status=dead}} He is now retired{{cite web | title=Untitled III| work=Free Verse | url=http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Archives/Winter_2005/poems/Irish/G_Squire.html | access-date=3 March 2009}} and lives in Hull. American poet and critic Robert Archambeau has described his work as 'a poetry of immediate consciousness'. His more recent writings show the effect of the study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theory of perception.
Works
=Poetry=
- Sixteen Poems (1969)
- Drowned Stones (1975)
- Figures (1978)
- XXI Poems (1980)
- Landscapes & Silences (1996)
- A Long Poem in Three Sections (1997)
- This (1997)
- Untitled and other poems 1975-2002 (2004)
- Abstract Lyrics and Other Poems 2006-2012 (2012)
- Poem at the Turn of the Year (2012)
- Sans Titre, French translation of "Untitled III" (Editions Unes, 2013)
- Paysages et Silences, French translation of "Landscapes & Silences" (Editions Unes, 2014)
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20031017222716/http://www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr5/reviews/ireland1.html An essay on Squires and two other poets]
{{Irish poetry}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Squires, Geoffrey}}
Category:Irish modernist poets
Category:Male poets from Northern Ireland
Category:Writers from Derry (city)