Trevor Joyce

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

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October 26 - 1947 - Irish - Poet - Dublin

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

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Early books include Sole Glum Trek (1967), Watches (1968), Pentahedron (1972) and The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine (1976). The last of these is a version of the Middle-Irish Buile Suibhne, well known from Seamus Heaney's later translation in Sweeney Astray (1983).

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After a near-total silence for twenty years, he resumed publishing in 1995 with stone floods, followed by Syzygy and Without Asylum (1998).

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Joyce's poetry employs a wide range of forms and techniques, ranging from those of classical Chinese and traditional Irish to modern experimentalism. He has published notable versions from Chinese and from the middle-Irish.

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A collected poems up to 2000, including his 'translations' was published as with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold (2001). More recent work appeared in a pair of chapbooks, Take Over and Undone, Say (2003; second, expanded edition 2005). He has also experimented with web-based poetry projects such as the collaborative project Offsets.

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He is a Fulbright Scholar.

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