Dennis O'Driscoll reading his poem "Someone" at IAC PoetryFest 2011

Dennis O'Driscoll was born in Thurles, County Tipperary in 1954. He has written eight books of poetry, two chapbooks and a collection of essays and reviews. He has also edited and compiled a volume of contemporary quotations about poets and poetry. Among numerous anthologies in which his work appears are Staying Alive (Bloodaxe), Scanning the Century (Penguin), 20th Century Irish Poems (Faber), The Poetry (Chicago) and Anthology (Ivan R. Dee). A substantial selection of his work is included in The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry 1 (Wake Forest University Press, USA, 2005). His awards include a Lannan Literary Award in 1999, the 2005 E.M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2006 O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the Center for Irish Studies in Minnesota.

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