Ciaran Berry

Ciaran Berry (born 1971 Dublin) is an Irish-American poet.

Life

He grew up in Carna, County Galway and Falcarragh, County Donegal.^[1][2] He graduated from New York University, a New York Times Fellow. He teaches at Trinity College, Hartford.^[3]

His work appeared in Gulf Coast,^[4] AGNI,^[5] Crazyhorse,^[6] The Missouri Review,^[7] The Threepenny Review,^[8] Gettysburg Review,^[9] Green Mountains Review,^[10] Ontario Review,^[11] and Notre Dame Review.

Awards

• 2007 Crab Orchard Award
• Jerwood Aldeburgh first collection prize^[12]
• 2012 Whiting Award^[13]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

• Berry, Ciaran (2008). The sphere of birds. Southern Illinois University Press.
• — (2013). The dead zoo. The Gallery Press.

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Electrocuting an elephant			Berry, Ciaran (2008). The sphere of birds. Southern Illinois University Press. Wright, Charles, ed. (2008). The best American poety 2008. Scribner. Poem of the Week - Jan 25, 2009

Critical studies and reviews of Berry's work

• Cooke, Belinda (Jun–Jul 2014). "Nasty, brutish and short". The London Magazine: 99–104. Review of The dead zoo.

References

1. "The Strong Reading and Award for Best First Collection" (PDF). Poetry Now. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
2. "Ciaran Berry - Bio". Poem of the Week. 2009-01-25. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
3. http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1353304
4. Ciaran Berry. "Sideshow". Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
5. "Author Ciaran Berry". AGNI Magazine. 2008. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
6. Clayton McCauley. "Crazyhorse Number 71". Crazyhorse.cofc.edu. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
7. "The Missouri Review - A Beard of Bees". Project MUSE. Winter 2005. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
8. "Threepenny: Issue 101". The Threepenny Review. Spring 2005. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
9. "Winter 2002 | the gettysburg review". The Gettysburg Review. Winter 2002. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
10. "Vol. XVIII, No. 1". Green Mountains Review. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
11. http://www.ontarioreviewpress.com/or_back_issues_pages/or_back_issue_65.html
12. Flood, Alison (2008-11-08). "Sphere of Birds wins Jerwood Aldeburgh prize: Ciaran Berry's debut collection takes £3,000 award". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
13. "Donegal poet takes US literary prize". Donegal Democrat. 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2012-11-12.

External links

• "An Interview with Ciaran Berry", Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation