Derek Mahon & Rosanna Warren
Friday 26th March at 8.30 pm €20/15/12
Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon was born in Belfast
in 1941, studied at Trinity College,
Dublin and the Sorbonne, and has
held journalistic and academic
appointments in London and New
York. A member of Aosdána, he has
received numerous awards including
the Irish Academy of Letters Award, the
Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize, and
Lannan and Guggenheim Fellowships.
Publications from The Gallery Press
include The Hudson Letter, The Yellow
Book, Words in the Air (bilingual, with
the French of Philippe Jaccottet), Birds
(a translation of Oiseaux by Saint-John
Perse), Harbour Lights (2005, Winner
of the Irish Times Poetry Now Award
2006), Adaptations (2006) and Life on
Earth (2008, Winner of the Irish Times
Poetry Now Award 2009). He received
the 2007 David Cohen Prize for
recognition of a lifetime’s achievement
in literature.
“. . . Political, metaphysical,
journalistic, sensual, minutely but
lightly observant, imaginatively
omnivorous, memorable, this is
poetry of an order the reader feels
lucky to encounter”
Seán O’Brien
Rosanna Warren
Rosanna Warren was born in
Connecticut in 1953. She was educated
at Yale and Johns Hopkins. She is the
author of three collections of poems:
Each Leaf Shines Separate (Norton,
1984), Stained Glass (Norton, 1993),
and Departure (Norton, 2003). Fables of
the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, a book of
literary criticism, appeared from Norton
in 2008. She has won fellowships from
the Guggenheim Foundation, ACLS,
The Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Lila
Wallace Readers’ Digest Fund, and the
Cullman Center at the New York Public
Library, among others. Stained Glass
won the Lamont Poetry Prize from the
Academy of American Poets. She was a
Chancellor of the Academy of American
Poets from 1999 - 2005. She is Emma
MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the
Humanities at Boston University.
“Rosanna Warren lives in our
tarnished, everyday, ramshackle
world of loss, anguish, and sacrifice,
but she inhabits almost as vividly a
realm of classic purity...a beautiful
miracle of bilocation.”
Anthony Hecht