- Robert Greacen
Robert Greacen (b.
24 October 1920 ,Derry - d.13 April 2008 ,Dublin ) was an Irish poet and member ofAosdána . He was educated atMethodist College Belfast andTrinity College Dublin .Publications
His published poetry collections include "The Bird" (1941), "Northern Harvest" (Belfast, Derrick MacCord, 1944), "One Recent Evening" (1944), "The Undying Day" (London, The Falcon Press, 1948), "A Garland for Captain Fox" (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1975), "I, Brother Stephen" (Dublin, St. Beuno’s, 1978), "Young Mr Gibbon" (1979), "A Bright Mask", (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1985), "Protestant Without a Horse" (Belfast, The Lagan Press, 1997), "Carnival at The River" (Dublin; Dedalus;, 1990); "Collected Poems" (Lagan Press, 1995), "Lunch at the Ivy" (Lagan Press, 2002), and "Selected & New Poems" (ed. by Jack W. Weaver, Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Publishing, 2006).
"Robert Greacen: Collected Poems 1944-1944", won the
Irish Times Award for Literature in 1995.His autobiography, "Even Without Irene", was published by the Dolmen Press in 1969 and re-issued in 1995 by Lagan Press. An expanded autobiography, "The Sash My Father Wore", was published in
Edinburgh by Mainstream Publishing in 1997.Family
He was married to the late Patricia Hutchins, author of "Ezra Pound's Kensington" and "James Joyce's Dublin". They had one daughter, Arethusa, who, like her father, resides in the
Republic of Ireland .References
* [http://www.irishwriters-online.com Irish Writers Online]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3875954.ece The Times: Robert GreacenPoet who at the request of T. S. Eliot compiled The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry]
* Guardian Obituary [http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2280001,00.html]
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