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Theo Dorgan
Theo Dorgan was born in Cork in 1953.
His poetry collections are
The Ordinary House of Love (Galway, Salmon Poetry, 1991); Rosa Mundi(Salmon Poetry, 1995); and Sappho’s Daughter (Dublin, wave Train Press 1998). He has also published a selected poems in Italian, La Case ai Margini del Mundo, (Faenza, Moby Dick, 1999), and a Spanish translation of
Sappho’s Daughter
La Hija de Safo, (Madrid, Poesía Hiperión, 2001).
He has edited The Great Book of Ireland (with Gene Lambert, 1991);
Revising the Rising (with Máirín Ní Dhonnachadha, 1991); Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1996); Watching the River Flow (with Noel Duffy, Dublin, Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann, 1999); The Great Book of Gaelic (wiith Malcolm Maclean, Edinburgh, Canongate, 2002); and The Book of Uncommon Prayer (Dublin, Penguin Ireland, 2007).
He has been series Editor European Poetry Translation Network publications
and Director of the collective translation seminars from which the books arose.
The authors from this series include
Claude Esteban & Bernard Noel (France)
Joao Miguel Fernandes Jorge & Joaquim Manuel Magalhaes (Portugal)
Nikos Phokas & Demosthenes Agrafiotis (Greece)
Mircea CartarescuPoetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann & Romulus Bucur (Romania)
Amir Or (Israel),
Agi Mishol (Israel),
Alex Susana (Catalonia),
Marta Pessarrodona (Catalonia),
Umberto Fiori (Italy),
Biancamaria Frabotta (Italy),
Hulki Aktunc (Turkey),
Lale Muldur (Turkey).
A former Director of Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann, he has worked extensively as a broadcaster of literary programmes on both radio and television. He was presenter of Poetry Now on RTÉ Radio 1, and later presented RTÉ's TV books programme, Imprint.
Among his awards are the Listowel Prize for Poetry, 1992. A member of Aosdána,
he was appointed to The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon in 2003.
He also serves on the Board of Cork European Capital of Culture 2005.
He lives in Dublin.
