Anthony Weir
Anthony Weir was born in 1941.
His publications include Tide and Undertow
(translations of poetry) (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1975); Early Ireland: A Field Guide (Blackstaff Press, 1980); Cinema of the Blind
(poems) (Blackstaff Press,1981).
He founded non-profit Dissident Editions in 1994 and self-published Dispatches
from the War Against the World (1994); The Transcendental Hotel (1997),
amongst other works. Dissident Editions transferred to an open-access website
in 2000. He has also written poems in Albanian and French. A selection is
currently being translated into Russian for publication in St Petersburg.
Anthony Weir is also a painter and photographer, and lives in rustic seclusion
in county Down.