Trevor Joyce

Trevor Joyce
Trevor Joyce reading his poems in Los Angeles, 2020.
Trevor Joyce reading his poems in Los Angeles, 2020.
Born (1947-10-26) 26 October 1947 (age 76)
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationPoet, 1967 – present
NationalityIrish
Notable worksThe Poems of Sweeny Peregrine (1976)
with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold (2001)
What's in Store (2007)
RelativesGreat-granduncles: Patrick Weston Joyce and Robert Dwyer Joyce

Trevor Joyce (born 26 October 1947) is an Irish poet, born in Dublin.[1]

He co-founded New Writers' Press (NWP) in Dublin in 1967 and was a founding editor of NWP's The Lace Curtain; A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism in 1968.[2]

Joyce was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge in 2009/10[3] and he had residencies at Cill Rialaig, County Kerry, and at the University of Galway.[4][5] He is also co-founder and director of the annual SoundEye Festival that is held in Cork City.[6]

  1. ^ British and Irish Poets: A Biographical Dictionary, 449–2006, Ed. William Stewart. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2007, p. 209.
  2. ^ Joyce, Trevor. "New Writers' Press: The History of Project". Modernism and Ireland: The Poetry of the 1930s, Ed. Patricia Coughlan and Alex Davis. (1995), pp. 276–306.
  3. ^ Faculty of English. "Judith E Wilson Visiting Fellows". website. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011.
  4. ^ "'A Desert in the Ocean': The View from Cill Rialaig". Imagineireland.ie. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  5. ^ Interview by Michael S. Begnal. The Burning Bush 7. Ed. Michael S. Begnal. (Spring 2002): 44.
  6. ^ "SoundEye History". Archived from the original on 10 September 2012.

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