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Desmond Egan, Poet

(b. 1936 - )

Desmond Egan in Athlone, born 1936, full-time writer, author 23 books of poetry books of poetry; two prose collections; two translations of Greek plays; twenty-four Collections of his Work have been published in French (5 collections); German (2); Czech (2); Italian (4); Russian (2); Romanian; Japanese; Chinese; Polish; Bulgarian; Dutch; Spanish; Croatian; Hungarian; two full-length Critical Works have appeared about Egan, both published in USA; a documentary DVD has also been published in USA. Where Egan also received an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from Washburn University.

Bishop Desmond Tutu hangs Desmond Egan's Peace Poem in his study.

Awards include: The National Poetry Foundation USA;The Bologna Literary Award (Italy); The Ouessant Prize (France); The Farrell Award (USA); The Chicago Haymarket Award (USA); The Stanford Poetry Prize (USA); Naim Frasheri Literary Award (Macedonia);

Egan was a founder member of The Gerard Manley Hopkins Literary Festival in 1987 - ‘the best literary festival in Ireland editor, The Oxford Companion to Irish Studies. The Oxford Companion to Irish Studies. He has also served on The Cultural Relations Committee for the Department of Foreign Affairs; and has been President of The Classical Association of Ireland.

Egan was first Poet-in-Residence in University College, Dublin. He has also been Poet-in-Residence in Creighton University USA; in Washburn University USA; in Kansai University Japan and he was also conducted the first Poetry Workshop at The Yeats Summer School. He has read widely and lectured at various Universities and at leading International Festivals. His poem PEACE was chosen for translation into 40 languages for the Millennium Year and can be heard, in Spanish and English on YouTube. In 2009,
Desmond Egan was a featured poet by PoetryLog at PoetryLog

Opinions

‘A major Irish poet, his poems represent an enormous advance … I know of nothing quite like them: it makes me think we have moved a generation beyond even the accomplishmnent of Heaney.' Hugh Kenner

I can't think of a modern poet, or of a modern poetic technique, which could catch the pity and terror quite as Egan catches it. Desmond Egan's Collected Poems is an achievement to be reckoned with. A stream in the midst of the stone of contemporary Irish poetry. Augustine Martin University College, Dublin.

Desmond Egan can be modern in a way that his Irishness does not fall into the background.Csilla Bertha, Hungary

His poems touch every aspect of our life.Egan is a remarkable poet. Studs Terkel Chicago.

I consider his work with simultaneous voices, which creates a new multi-poem, shaded, leveled, nuanced and moving , a major innovation. Reloy Garcia Creighton University.

Desmond Egan is a major poet … (Brian Arkins, NUI, Galway

In the crisis of identity of modern Ireland, poetry has been secularised – whereas in Egan almost every poem has a metaphysical aspect. He is, for me, the most remarkable pet writing in English. Birgit Bramsback (Uppsala University Sweden).

Anthologies, Collections

Turning Tides: Modern Dutch & Flemish Verse in English Versions by Irish Poets; Peter van de Kamp (Editor), Frank van Meurs (Editor) 1994; ISBN 0-934257-70-1.

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry by Matthew Campbell; (2003); ISBN-10: 0521012457.

Desmond Egan Poetry Publications in English

Egan, Desmond. 1972. Midland Newbridge, Ireland:The Goldsmith Press.With drawings by Brian Bourke (out of print)

Egan. Desmond. 1972. Poiemata, Readings in Poetry and Prose for Young People, chosen by Egan, Rice. Dublin: Fallons. (out of print)

Egan. D. 1973. Choice: An anthology of Irish poetry selected by the poets themselves. Edited by Desmond Egan and Michael Hartnett.Newbridge, Ireland: Goldsmith Press.

Egan, Desmond.1974 . Leaves.Newbridge, Ireland:Goldsmith Press.With drawings by Charles Cullen (out of print)

Egan, Desmond. 1976 Siege Newbridge, Ireland:Goldsmith Press.

Egan, Desmond. 1978. Woodcutter. Newbridge, Ireland: Goldsmith Press. (out of print)

Egan, Dv. 1980. Athlone? Newbridge, Ireland: Goldsmith Press.With photographs by Fergus Bourke. (out of print).

Egan. Desmond 1983. Seeing Double. Newbridge, Ireland: Goldsmith Press.Illusrations by Alex Sadkowsky. (out of print)

Egan. Desmond 1983. Collected Poems. Orono, Maine, National Poetry Foundation. Winner of The National Poetry Foundation Award. (out of print)

Egan. Desmond 1989. A Song for my Father. Newbridge, Ireland: The Kavanagh

Egan. Desmond 1992. Peninsula, Poems of the Dingle Peninsula. Newbridge, Ireland: The Kavanagh Press.

Egan. Desmond 1992. Snapdragon.Little Rock, Arkansas. Milestone Press. With drawings by Brian Bourke (out of print)

Egan. Desmond 1992 Selected Poems:Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press.Selected and with an Inroduction by Hugh Kenner. (out of print)

Egan. Desmond 1994. Poems for Eimear Limited Edition. Little Rock, Arkansas. Milestone Press.

Egan. Desmond 1994. In the Holocaust of Autumn - a sequence in eight parts with an Epilogue. Newbridge, Ireland: Goldsmith Press. (Available also in a French bililingual edition. See below)

Egan. Desmond 1995 Elegies. Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press. <a href="elegies_review.html">Read Dr. Serpillo's Review of Desmond Egan's Elegies </a>

Egan. Desmond 1997. Famine Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press. (Available also in French and in Italian bilingual editions. See below).

Egan Desmond 2000 Music Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press.

Egan Desmond 2001 The Hill of Allen The Hill of Allen,Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press/ Peterloo Poets. (out of print)

Desmond Egan Poetry Prose Publications

The Bronze Horseman Desmond Egan 2008 The Goldsmith Press.

Desmond Egan: Translations into English from Greek

Egan. Desmond 1998. Sophocles:Philoctetes (from Classical Greek) Translated by Desmond Egan. Newbridge, Ireland: Goldsmith Press.

Egan. Desmond 1991. Euripides : Medea. Translated from Classical Greek by Desmond Egan. St. Andrews Press, USA /The Kavanagh Press.

Desmond Egan: Poetry Books in Translation

Desmond Egan Poems in Czech

Egan. Desmond 1997. Smiluj Se nad basnikem. Translated into Czech by Ivana Bozdechova. Introduction: Miroslav Holub.Czechoslovakia: Volvox Globator.

Desmond Egan Poems in Dutch

Egan. Desmond 1990. Echobogen - Echoarches. Translated into Dutch by Peter Nijmeijer. Louvain, Belgium: Leuvense Schrijversaktie.

Desmond Egan Poems in Japanese

Egan. Desmond 1995. Paper Cranes translated into Japanese Japanese by Yasukawa, Wada, Sekine.Suita, Osaka: Kansai University Press.

Desmond Egan Poems in French

Egan. Desmond 1988. Terre et Paix - Poemes d'Irlande. Translations into French.Introduction by Patrick Rafroidi, Etudes Irlandaise, Lille, France: Presses Universitaires de Lille.

Egan Desmond 1996 Peninsula traduit de l'anglais pas Jean-Paul Blot postface de Danielle Jacquin Edition bilingue. France, 24400 Eglise-Neuve d'Issac 1992 pour la traduction en français ISBN 2.85792.140.3

Egan. Desmond 1998. Holocauste de l'automne - suite en huit partie et un Épilogue / In the Holocaust of Autumn - a sequence in eight parts with an Epilogue. Traduit (en francais) par Jean Poncet. Thonon-les-Bains, France:Alidades Bilingue. Bilingual edition french / english

Desmond Egan Poems in German

Egan. Desmond 1995. Poems Gedichte translated into German German. Germany: Verlag Karl Stutz. Egan. Desmond 1996.

Egan. Desmond 1998. Irish Poems Limited Edition of 20 German / English poems. Luxembourg: Editions Phi a Echternach.

Egan. Desmond 1999. Meine Geschichte der irischen Dichtung. An anthology of Irish poetry in German and English. Germany: Verlag Karl Stutz. Übersetzt von Martina Nolte unter Mitarbeit von Ulrike Borgman und Stephan Kohl (bilingual German and English).

Egan Desmond 2000 Hungarian / English bilingual edition. (out of print).

Desmond Egan Poems in Italian

Egan Desmond 1997 Carestia Sequenza poetica a cura di Donatalla Abbate Badin; disegni di James McKenna. Edited by Donatella Abbate Badin Illustrations by Irish sculptor, James McKenna 41 pp. Bilingual Italian / English

Egan. Desmond1992. Quel Sole Storno Che Gelido Passa a cura di Giuseppe Serpillo. Traduzione a cura di: R. barone; Mary Pound de Rachewiltz; Alfredo Rizzardi; Giuseppi Serpillo; Rosalba Spinalbelli. Marino Solfanelli Editore (Italy). (out of print)

Egan. Desmond 1998. Poesie Scelte (translations into Italian) a cura di Marroni e Serpillo. Pescara, Italy: Editions Tracce.

Desmond Egan Poems in Russian

Egan Desmond 1999 Selected Poems translated into Russian by Maria Popova and Alla Savtchenko.

Egan Desmond 2000 Selected Poems translated into Russian bilignual edition Russian / English

Egan Desmond 9009: The Bronze Horseman. Selected Essays

Desmond Egan: Multimedia Publications

Egan. Desmond 1989. Audio Cassette: Desmond Egan: Poet's Choice. Newbridge, Ireland: Kavanagh Cassettes.

Egan Desmond 2002 DESpectrum. A multimedia production edited by Ivana Bozdechova;. Music specially composed by Jan Hruby;. CD with bilingual readings of Egan's poetry by Desmond Egan; Jan Hruby; Ivana Bozcechova; Jan Petmesil ; Tom Karger. Published by Carpe Diem, Prague 2002.

About Egan and his work

The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, editor Robert Welch Oxford University Press, USA (March 28, 1996) ISBN-10: 0198661584.

The Gill Encyclopaedia of Ireland, editor Brian Lalor, (Dublin) Gill & MacMillan; (January 2003) ISBN-10: 0717130002.

Dictionary of Irish Literature, editor Robert Hogan Greenwood Press 1978 ISBN-13: 978-0313301766.

Who's Who in Ireland, editor Angela A. Phelan, 2006 Madison Publications Limited ISBN-10: 0951872834

Modern Irish Writers A Bio Critical Sourcebook Editor Alexander G. Gonzales,Greenwood Press Westport Connecticut London
1997; ISBN-10: 0313295573.

Desmond Egan: The Poet and His Work, editor Hugh Kenner, USA Orono: Northern Lights; First US edition (January 1, 1990)
ASIN: B002SNR03W

Desmond Egan: A Critical Study Brian Arkins, USA Milestone Press 1992; ISBN-13: 978-1870491952

Kingfishers: English and Irish Writers, Giuseppe Serpillo; The Goldsmith Press; ISBN-13: 978-1870490672

Hellenising Ireland: Greek and Roman Themes in Modern Irish Literature, Brian Arkins, 2005,The Goldsmith Press Ltd.
ISBN-10: 1870491084

Essays also by: Alla Savtchenko, University Voronezh, Russia) Peter Nijmeijr (Netherlands); Birgit Bramsbeck (Sweden);
Akira Yasukawa (Kansai University, Japan); others ...

Politics and the Rhetoric of Poetry: Perspectives on Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry (D Q R Studies in Literature) by C. C. Barfoot, Tjebbe A. Westendorp, and Jane Mallinson ( Library Binding - Jan 1995) ; Editions Rodopi (January 1995); ISBN-10: 9051837992

Desmond Egan in Princess Grace Irish Library Monaco

Csilla Bertha Introducing Desmond Egan