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Biographical
Note Born
in Dublin, Ireland, in 1947, Trevor Joyce was brought up between Mary
Street, in the city centre, and the Galway Gaeltacht. Aged nineteen,
he co-founded New Writers' Press in Dublin with Michael Smith, and
his first book was NWP's initial publication in 1967. Joyce was also
a founding editor of NWP's influential journal, The Lace Curtain.
By the mid-70s he had largely withdrawn from the Press to develop
his own exploratory poetry down less familiar and frequented routes.
Joyce's
poems have appeared in many journals, and he has published eleven
volumes of poetry, including The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine
(1976), his working of the middle-Irish Buile Suibhne, and
stone floods (1995), which was nominated for the Irish Times
Literature Prize for Poetry. All these books have come through small
presses, where openness to invention compensates for lack of publicity,
wide distribution or commercial promotion. His
most recent publications are with the first dream of fire they
hunt the cold: A Body of Work 1966-2000 (NWP & Shearsman Books,
2001) and the audio CD Red Noise of Bones (Coelocanth &
Wild Honey Press, 2001). He has also published several papers on contemporary
poetics, and has lectured and given public readings of his work throughout
Ireland, the U.K. and the U.S.A. He co-edited Cork Caucus:
on art, possibility & democracy (Revolver, Frankfurt,
2006). A collection of poems covering 2000-2007, What's
in Store, has just been published in North America and
Europe. Founder and director of The SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word since 1997, he held residencies with Cork County Council (2001) and NUIG, (2001/2). Awarded a Literary Bursary by the Irish Arts Council (2001), Joyce was a Fulbright Scholar for the year 2002-2003. In 2004 he was elected a member of Aosdána, the Irish Affiliation of Artists, and was the first writer to be awarded a fellowship by the Ballinglen Arts Foundation. He has lived in Cork since 1984. |
In
Dublin and Oxford, in the early eighties, he conducted seminars and
lectured on classical Chinese poetry, and visited the People's Republic
of China as a poet at the invitation of the Chinese government in
1983. Having read Philosophy and English at University College Dublin,
he moved to Cork where he read Mathematical Sciences in University
College Cork. He worked for twelve years as a Business Systems Analyst
with Apple Computer at their European manufacturing facility in Cork,
but since January 2000 has been a full-time writer.