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James Liddy
James Liddy was born in Dublin in 1934.
His poetry publications
include Esau, My Kingdom for a drink (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1962); In a Blue Smoke (The Dolmen Press, 1964); Blue Mountain (The Dolmen Press, 1968); A Life of Stephan Dedalus (San Francisco, White Rabbit Press, 1969); A Munster Song of Love and War (White Rabbit Press,1971); Baudelaire’s Bar Flowers (San Francisco, Capra Press, 1975); Corca Baiscinn (The Dolmen Press, 1977); Comyn’s Lay (The Dolmen Press, 1978); Chamber Pot Music (Berkeley, CA, Hit & Run Press,1982); At The Grave of Father Sweetman (1984); A White Thought in a White Shade (New & Selected Poems, Dublin, Kerr’s Pinks, 1987); Art is not for Grown-Ups (1990); In the Slovak Bowling Alley (Milwaukee, The Blue Canary Press/ Dublin, Kerr’s Pinks, 1990); Trees Warmer than Green Notes towards a Video of Avondale (Portlaoise, The International University Press, 1991); Collected Poems (Nebraska, Creighton University Press, 1995; Epitaphery (San Francisco, White Rabbit Press, 1998); Gold Set Dancing (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Poetry, 2000); Yeats: New Ways of Falling in Love (White Rabbit, 2003); I Only Know That I Love Strength in My Friends and Greatness (Galway, Arlen House, 2003); On the Raft with Fr. Roseliep (Arlen House, 2006); Askeaton Sequence (Arlen House, 2009); and Wexford and Arcady (Arlen House, 2009).
His novel Young Men Go Walking was published in Triad, by Wolfhound of Dublin in 1986.
His two volumes of memoir are The Doctor’s House (Salmon Poetry, 2004); and The Full Shilling (Salmon Poetry, 2009).
He was a member of
Aosdána, and lived and taught in Milwaukee, USA.
He died on November 5th, 2009.
