Harry Clifton
Harry Clifton was born in Dublin in 1952. His poetry collections are The Walls of Carthage (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1977); Office of the Salt Merchant (The Gallery Press, 1979);
Comparative Lives (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1982); The Liberal Cage(The Gallery Press, 1988), Night Train through the Brenner (The Gallery Press, 1996), The Desert Route Selected Poems 1973-1988 (The Gallery Press, 1992), which was a London Poetry Book Society Recommendation, God in France (Dublin, Metre, 2003); and Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks, 1994-2004 (Wake Forest University Press, 2007).
His chronicle of a year in the Abruzzo Mountains is On the Spine of Italy (London, MacMillan, 1999);
his stories are collected as Berkeley’s
Telephone (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 2000).
His awards include The Patrick Kavanagh Award, and The Irish Times/Poetry Now Award 2008 for Secular Eden.
He has lived in various parts of the world, and is a member of Aosdána.
He currently lives in Dublin.
