Greg Delanty

Poet Greg Delanty was born in Cork, Ireland, and earned his BA at the National University of Ireland. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Book Seventeen (2015), Loosestrife (2011), The Ship of Birth (2007), and Collected Poems 1986–2006 (2006). His first book, Cast in the Fire (1986), won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. Delanty’s poetry often considers place, whether the Ireland of his birth and upbringing or the United States—he has been an American citizen since 1994. Thomas McCarthy described Delanty’s work as “a localisation of worldly ideas where insights are dropped casually within a distracting lyrical dance.”

Delanty has edited or coedited a number of anthologies and translations, including The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (with Michael Matto, 2011), Selected Poems of Sean O’Riordain in Translation (2007), Selected Poems: Kyriakos Charalambides (2005), and Jumping Off Shadows: Selected Contemporary Irish Poetry (with Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, 1995). With Robert Welsh, he edited New and Selected Poems of Patrick Galvin (1995). His honors and awards include an Austin Clarke Centenary Award, a Dowling Poetry Fellowship, and a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. He is currently a professor of English at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont.