Trevor Joyce
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Trevor Joyce is an Irish
poet
, born in Dublin.
He co-founded New Writers' Press in Dublin in 1967 and was a founding editor of NWP's The Lace Curtain
; A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism in 1968.
He is the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University in 2009/10; a Fulbright Scholar; and a member of Aosdána
. He is also co-founder and director of the annual SoundEye Festival
that is held in Cork City.
, well known from Seamus Heaney
's later translation in Sweeney Astray
(1983).
After a near-total silence for twenty years, he resumed publishing in 1995 with stone floods, followed by Syzygy and Without Asylum (1998).
Joyce's poetry employs a wide range of forms and techniques, ranging from traditional to modern experimentalism. He has published notable versions from Chinese and from the middle-Irish, which he refers to as "workings" rather than "translations" to emphasize that they are poetic reimaginings in the tradition of Ezra Pound
rather than "straight" translations.
A collected poems up to 2000, including his "workings" from the Irish and Chinese, was published as with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold (2001). He has also experimented with web-based poetry projects such as the collaborative project OffSets. A collection of his post-with the first dream work, What's in Store, was published in 2007. A separate collection of new and old translations from the Irish entitled Courts of Air and Earth was issued by Shearsman in 2009, and has been shortlisted for the Corneliu M Popescu Award for European Poetry in Translation 2009.
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, born in Dublin.
He co-founded New Writers' Press in Dublin in 1967 and was a founding editor of NWP's The Lace Curtain
The Lace Curtain
The Lace Curtain was an occasional literary magazine founded and edited by Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce under their New Writers Press imprint...
; A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism in 1968.
He is the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University in 2009/10; a Fulbright Scholar; and a member of Aosdána
Aosdána
Aosdána is an Irish association of Artists. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland. Membership, which is by invitation from current members, is limited to 250 individuals; before 2005 it was limited to 200...
. He is also co-founder and director of the annual SoundEye Festival
SoundEye Festival
The SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word is an annual festival dedicated to poetry and other artistic practices predicated on the power of word and text. It is held in Cork City, taking up the best part of a week in late-June to mid-July...
that is held in Cork City.
Works
Early books include Sole Glum Trek (1967), Watches (1968), Pentahedron (1972) and The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine (1976). The last of these is a version of the Middle-Irish Buile ShuibhneBuile Shuibhne
Buile Suibhne is the tale of Suibhne , a legendary king of Dál nAraidi in Ulster in Ireland...
, well known from Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
's later translation in Sweeney Astray
Sweeney Astray
Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish is a version of the Irish poem Buile Shuibhne written by Seamus Heaney and published in 1983. It is based on an earlier translation by J.G. O'Keeffe...
(1983).
After a near-total silence for twenty years, he resumed publishing in 1995 with stone floods, followed by Syzygy and Without Asylum (1998).
Joyce's poetry employs a wide range of forms and techniques, ranging from traditional to modern experimentalism. He has published notable versions from Chinese and from the middle-Irish, which he refers to as "workings" rather than "translations" to emphasize that they are poetic reimaginings in the tradition of Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
rather than "straight" translations.
A collected poems up to 2000, including his "workings" from the Irish and Chinese, was published as with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold (2001). He has also experimented with web-based poetry projects such as the collaborative project OffSets. A collection of his post-with the first dream work, What's in Store, was published in 2007. A separate collection of new and old translations from the Irish entitled Courts of Air and Earth was issued by Shearsman in 2009, and has been shortlisted for the Corneliu M Popescu Award for European Poetry in Translation 2009.