Delanty has either written or edited seventeen books and has received numerous awards for his poetry including the patrick kavanagh award 1983, the allan dowling poetry fellowship 1986, the austin clarke centenary poetry award 1997, and a guggenheim fellowship for poetry 2008. The opening line of the wanderer, the loner holds out for grace 1, immediately conjures images of someone socially and geographically removed from society. The word exchange greg delanty, michael matto, seamus heaney. Anglosaxon poems in translation reprint by greg delanty, michael matto, seamus heaney isbn. All lines quoted from the elegies come from the translations found in greg delanty and michael mattos the word exchange. Seamus heaney 193920 was an irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer and recipient of the 1995 nobel prize in literature.
His latest book of poems, selected delanty, comes out this fall. So spoke the earthstepper, mindful of miseries, slaughter of the wrathful, crumbling of kinsmen. Irish poet greg delanty presents a series of poems that explore the birth of a child. Greg delanty born 1958 is a celebrated poet on both sides of the atlantic as the issue dedicated to him of the british magazine agenda poetry journal attests. The editors designed this book to show the broad variety of anglosaxon verse, and to bring it closer to a modern audience including people not normally interested either in poetry or the anglosaxons by getting real modern poets to do the translations. Born at mossbawn farmhouse between castledawson and toomebridge, county derry. Heres what you will find in order poems of exile and longing. In 1983, delanty received the distinguished patrick kavanagh poetry award given to an irish poet who has not previously published a book, and in 1986 his. He has recently edited the word exchange, a magnificent book of translations from the anglosaxon, published by w.
Greg delanty is an irish poet who teaches at saint michaels college in vermont. The following resources were used in the making and compiling of these pages. Michael matto is an associate professor of english at adelphi university. A book the many fans of heaneys beowulf might take home and dip into, almost at random, for years.
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