Desmond Egan

Desmond Egan (born 15 July 1936 in

• 1972. Midland, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press. With drawings by Brian Bourke
• 1972. Poiemata, Readings in Poetry and Prose for Young People, chosen by Egan, Rice. Dublin: Fallons
• 1973 Choice, An anthology of Irish poetry selected by the poets themselves. Edited by Desmond Egan and Michael Hartnett, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press
• 1974 Leaves, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press. With drawings by Charles Cullen
• 1976 Siege, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press
• 1978 Woodcutter, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press. Illustrations by Alberto Giacometti
• 1980 Athlone?, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press. With photographs by Fergus Bourke
• 1983 Seeing Double, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press. With illustrations by Alex Sadkowsky
• 1983 Collected Poems, Orono, Maine, NPF. Winner of The National Poetry Foundation of USA Award
• 1989 A Song for my Father, Newbridge, Ireland: The Kavanagh Press
• 1990 The Death of Metaphor, essays, Gerrard's Cross, England: Colin Smythe
• 1991 Medea, translation of Euripides. St. Andrew's Press, Laurinburg, USA
• 1992 Peninsula, Poems of the Dingle Peninsula. Newbridge, Ireland: The Kavanagh Press. With Photographs by Liam Lyons
• 1992 Snapdragon, Little Rock, Arkansas: Milestone Press
• 1992 Selected Poems, Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press. Selected and with Introduction by Hugh Kenner
• 1994 Poems for Eimear, Limited Edition. Little Rock, Arkansas. Milestone Press
• 1994 In the Holocaust of Autumn A sequence in nine parts; Foreword by Ben Briscoe. Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press
• 1995 Elegies, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press
• 1997 Famine, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press. With drawings by James McKenna
• 1998 Philoctetes, translation of Sophocles. Little Rock, Arkansas: Milestone Press, USA
• 1999 Prelude: A Sequence of Poems for Hans Pålsson, Pianist. Limited ed., Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press
• 2000 Music, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press
• 2001 The Hill of Allen, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press. With drawings by James McKenna
• 2005 The Outdoor Light, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press
• 2009 The Bronze Horseman, Essays, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press
• 2012 Hopkins in Kildare, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press
• 2015 Epic, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press
• 2017 Hopeful Hopkins, Essays, Newbridge, Ireland: The Goldsmith Press

Anthologies

• Eva Hesse, Lyrik Importe, ein Lesebuch, Aachen: Rimbuad, 2004
• Hunderose: Neue Irische Gedichte, Augsburg: Maroverlag, 1983
• Wenzell (ed.), Woven Shades of Green: Irish Nature Literature, Lewisburg: Bucknell Press, 2019
• Koesu / Sekine (eds.), Irish Writers and Politics, Gerrads Cross: Colin Smythe, 1989
• Gunnar Harding, Bengt Jangfeldt (eds.), Artes, 3, Stockholm,1997
• Robert Welch (ed.) Irish Writers and Religion, Maryland: Barnes & Noble, 1992
• J-Y Masson (ed.), Anthologie de la Poesie irlandaise du XXe siecle, Paris: Verdier, 1996
• ThomasFoster Elizabeth Guthrioen(eds.), A Year in Poetry, New York: Crown Publishers, 1995
• Juri Talvet
  (ed.) Valitud tolkeluulet Anthology II (1970-2020), Tartu: Ulikool, 2022

DVDs / CDs

• CD: Needing the Sea, Goldsmith Press, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, 1995. John Hunter/Jim Kelly, Directors
• DVD: Desmond Egan; Through the Eyes of a Poet, Washburn University and KTWU, Kansas

Books in translation

French

• Terre et Paix 1989 tr. Patrick Rafroidi, Daniel Jacquin et al.
• Holocauste d’Autumne 1998 tr. Jean Poncet
• Peninsula 1996 tr.Jean Paul Blot
• Elegies 2000 Bruno Gaurier
• Music et Autres Poemes 2005 tr. Jean Paul Blot (Prix du livres Insulaires, 2005)
• Athlone 2015 tr. Bruno Gaurier
• Famine 2018 tr. Bruno Gaurier

Irish

• Mo Rogha tr. Michael Hartnett, edited by Diarmuid Johnson, 2022

German

• Meine Geschichte der Irischen Dichtung/ My Irish Poems 1995 tr. S.Kohl; M. Pfister et al.
• Gedichte/ Poems 1999 tr. U. Borgmann/ S. Kohl

Dutch

• Echobogen/ Echo Arches 1990 tr. P Nijmeijer

Russian

• Selected Poems 1999 tr. Alla Savtchenko, Maria Popova
• Poems 2000 tr. Alla Savtchenko

Italian

• Quel Sole Storno Che Gelido Passa 1992 translator Giuseppe Serpillo
• Poesie Scelte/ Selected Poems 1994 tr. Francesco Marroni
• Carestia/ Famine 2000 tr. Donatella Abbate Badin
• Un Poeta di Irlanda 1990 tr. Enzo Bonventre

Spanish

• De Hambruna/ Famine 2002 tr. Marcus Hormiga

Czech

• Smiluj nad Basnikem/ Have Mercy on the Poet 1992 tr. Ivana Bozdechová
• DESpectrum (CD included) Poems and appreciations 2002 /2007 tr. Ivana Bozdechová

Chinese

• September Dandelion 2008 tr. Jin Wenning

Polish

• Poezje Wybrane/ Selected Poems 2002 tr. Aleksandra Kedzierska

Japanese

• Paper Cranes 1995 tr. Akira Yasukawa et al.

Greek

• Poiemata/ Poems 2001 tr. Georgia Ghinis
• Selected Poems forthcoming tr. Giorgos Christoulides

Greek Cypriot

• Choice, translated by Despina Pirketti 2022

Croatian

• Christ in Connaught Street 2009 tr. Emil Cic
• Elegies 2018 tr. Nikola Duretic

Hungarian

• Selected Poems 2000 tr. Tomas Kabdebo

Bulgarian

• Selected Poems 1999 tr. D. Paryeba

Slovenian

• Too Little Peace/ Selected Poems 2007 tr. Robert Simonisek

Swedish

• How Lonely the Soul tr. Lena Koster 2019
• Selected Poems tr. Lena Koster forthcoming 2022

Romanian

• Black Windows, Selected Poems tr. Emilia Ivancu forthcoming 2022

Editor

• Poiemata Poetry and Prose for Young People 1972
• Focus (with Eoghan O Tuairisc) 1972
• Choice An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry with Michael Hartnett 1973
• The Deserted Village edited, with Introduction 1974, reprinted 1977
• Brian Bourke: Marcel Marceau Drawings Introduction 1978
• Brian Bourke: a Catalogue of his Work, editor 1982
• Lost in the Woods Introduction,1992
• James McKenna; A Celebration ed. with Introduction 2007
• James McKenna The Complete Catalogue ed. with Introduction 2008

Review editor

• Era Magazine 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 1975 to 1978

Poster poems

• Requiem Illustrated by Charles Cullen
• Listening to John McCormack Illustrated by Charles Cullen
• Needing the Sea Illustrated by Alex Sadkowski
• Brother Sister Chile Illustrated by Kathy Owens
• For Benjamin Moloise Illustrated by James McKenna
• First Communion
• For Rudy Romano Illustrated by Henry Flanagan
• Understanding God Too Quickly In Topeka Illustrated by John Hunter
• For Bill Langdon Illustrated by Wilhelm Fockersperger
• Freedom Illustrated by Wilhelm Fockersperger

• Newbridge College
• Peace illustrated by Brian Bourke
• Forget Me Not
• Requiem illus. by James McKenna 2018

Awards

• 1983: Stanford Poetry Award 1983
• 1983: National Poetry Foundation of USA Award for Collected Poems
• 1987: Chicago Haymarket Literary Award
• 1989: The Farrell Prize, New York
• 1996: Honorary D.Litt. from Washburn University, Kansas, USA
• 1998: Bologna Literary Award, Italy
• 2001: Premio Anfiosso Literary Award (Italy)
• 2004: Macedonia Literature Award
• 2005: Ouessant (France) International Literary Award
• 2010: Arpino (Italy): Il Libro di Pietra plaque
• 2012: Newbridge Town Culture Award
• 2015: Kildare County Council Literature Award
• 2015: IBAM, Irish Books and Media (Chicago) Award for Literature

Offices held

• Founder and Artistic Director, The Gerard Manley Hopkins International Festival, Newbridge College: 1987 to present
• Juror The Neustadt International Literature Award University of Oklahoma 1999
• Cultural Relations Committee, Dept. of Foreign Affairs 2000 - 2003; 2003 - 2006
• Hon. President, The Classical Society of Ireland, 2004

Further reading

• Arkins, Brian, Desmond Egan: A Critical Study Milestone Press, Little Rock, USA, 1992.
• Kenner, Hugh, ed., Desmond Egan: The Poet and His Work. Northern Lights, Maine, USA,1990.
• Kunio Shimane,The Language of Now: Three Poems of Desmond Egan Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 91, No. 364 (Winter, 2002), pp. 390–398.
• Interview with Anthony Roche: Irish Literary Supplement, Volume 8, Number 2, 1 September 1989.
• The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, Oxford, 1996
• The Influential Irish, Dublin, 2006
• The Gill Encyclopaedia of Ireland
• Modern Irish Writers: a Biography
• Modern Irish Lives
• Dictionary of Irish Literature
• Who’s Who in Ireland
• Adamson, William, Epic, Studies,2019

Conference lecturer/reader

USA

• Ezra Pound Conferences
• TS Eliot Conference;
• Patrick Kavanagh Conference
• American Conferences on Irish Studies
• I.A.S.I.L. Conference etc.

Italy Sardinia France UK Germany Spain Macedonia Belgium Croatia Nicaragua Austria South Korea China Japan Sweden Ireland: W.B. Yeats Conference First Creative Writing Director Patrick Kavanagh Weekend UCD First Poet in Residence; Lecture series Galway Classical Conference John Broderick Weekend, Athlone Ireland Classical Society Presidential Lecture NUI Maynooth French and English Groups; IASIL Conference The Hopkins Festival Michael Hartnett Weekend, Dublin Gerard Manley Hopkins Festivals

Selected articles

• The Book of Kells Art and Antiques USA c.1990
• Peter Connolly The Furrow
• The Dominicans of Galway Yearbook, 1991
• Patrick Kavanagh in P.K. Man and Poet USA 1991
• Happy Hopkins Studies, winter 2012
• Art and Illness 2nd World Humanities Forum Proceedings 2012
• Gabriel Marcel Kansas Journal 2019

Essays / reviews

• Various Countries incl. USA, UK, France, Germany, Ireland

Portraits

• Brian Bourke 1972
• Brian Bourke Triptique 1988
• Charles Cullen 1974
• Alex Sadkowsky 1982
• Wilhelm Fockersperger c.10 times
• Chinese Artist 1990
• James McKenna 1998

References

External links

• Desmond Egan reads his poem "Peace" video
• List of works by Desmond Egan
• Mediterránean Poetry: [1]
• Literature Ireland: [2]