Poet
Thomas McCarthy
Thomas McCarthy
(Ireland, 1954)
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Biography
Thomas McCarthy was born and raised at Cappoquin Co. Waterford. He began to publish poems while still an undergraduate and won awards at an early age, including the Patrick Kavanagh Award when he was just 24. Two years later he was selected for the International Writers Programme in Iowa. He has spent practically all his working life as a librarian in Cork City, except for occasional sabbaticals which have sometimes taken him teaching in America and three years as assistant director of Cork 2005 – the company responsible for managing Cork’s designation as European Capital of Culture. He has published eight collections of poetry and two novels.
© Patrick Cotter
Thomas McCarthy was a guest at the 41st Poetry International Festival. He was first published on PIW in 2007.Bibliography
Poetry
The First Convention, Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1978
The Sorrow Garden, Anvil Press, London, 1981
The Non-Aligned Storyteller, Anvil Press, London, 1984
Seven Winters in Paris, Anvil Press, London, 1989
The Lost Province, Anvil Press, London, 1996
Mr Dineen’s Careful Parade – New and Selected Poems, Anvil Press, London, 1999
Merchant Prince, Anvil Press, London, 2005
The Last Geraldine Officer, Anvil Press, London, 2010
Fiction
Without Power, Poolbeg Press, Dublin, 1990
Asya and Christine, Poolbeg Press, Dublin, 1993
Non-fiction
The Garden of Remembrances, New Island Books, Dublin, 1998
Links
The Poetry of Thomas McCarthy by August Kleinzahler
A Review of McCarthy’s latest book Last Geraldine Officer
McCarthy’s poem ‘The Non-Aligned Storyteller’'
Earlier published version of ‘Dying Synagogue . . .’
Thomas McCarthy essay “Why I Write”
Interview and readings by McCarthy at Podcasts.ie
Poems
Poems of Thomas McCarthy
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