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The dates and publishers given here are for first editions.
However, I realise you may be looking for current editions, so
in-print books by Michael Davitt may be purchased directly from
the internet shop front of the independent Irish book seller
Books Upstairs, Dublin. Click on either the booksirish logo
or the author's name to go there directly.
Michael Davitt was born in Cork in 1950.
He edited Innti, an influential poetry journal in Irish.
His collections are Gleann ar Ghleann (Baile Átha Cliath, Sáirséal Ó Marcaigh, 1982); Bligeard Sráide (Baile Átha Cliath, Coiscéim, 1983); An Tost a Scagadh (Coiscéim, 1993); Selected Poems/Rogha Dánta 1968-1984 (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1987); Scuais (Gallimh, Cló Iar-Chonnachta Teo, 1998); and
Freacnairc Mhearcair/The Oomph of Quicksilver (Cork University Press, 2000).
His awards include The Butler Prize for Literature in 1994. He was a member of
Aosdána.
He died suddenly in Sligo on June 19, 2005.
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