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| Catherine Phil MacCarthy (1954-) Poet and creative writing teacher. Born in Crecora, Co.Limerick. She was educated at University College, Cork and later studied Drama at Trinity College, Dublin and at Central School, London. Joint winner of the Poetry Ireland/Co-Operation North Sense of Place competition in 1991 judged by Michael Longley and Philip Casey, a selection of her work was published under the title How High the Moon. She won the National Women’s Poetry Competition in 1990, was a prizewinner in the 1992 Patrick Kavanagh Awards, and shortlisted for the Austin Clarke Prize in 1996. She was Editor of Poetry Ireland Review (Nos.57 – 60). She has received Arts Council bursaries for poetry in 1994,1998, and 2007/8. She lives in Dublin and has worked as Writer in Residence for the City of Dublin (1994), and at the Department of Anglo Irish Literature, University College, Dublin (2002). She teaches Creative Writing at the Irish Writers Centre. Her first novel, One Room an Everywhere was published by Blackstaff Press in 2003 and nominated for the Sunday Independent/Hughes and Hughes Novel of the year Award. She is working on a second. The landscape of an Irish country childhood permeates her poems. In turn, subversive and powerfully erotic her work has won the praise of Eavan Boland, who wrote that her poems are “the work of a very gifted and very interesting and new Irish poet” and from Catríona O Reilly who wrote “these poems convey a powerful sense of the value of experience.” (Irish Times). Her third collection Suntrap was published in March 2007. Thomas McCarthy has said: “It is as a love poet that Catherine Phil MacCarthy triumphs. From This Hour of the Tide, published 13 years ago, to the present collection, she has been a powerful, chthonic observer of love in all its forms.” (Irish Times) Poetry Collections: Suntrap (2007), Blackstaff Press. Editor: Poetry Ireland Review (1998), Nos. 57-60. Novel: One Room an Everywhere (2003), Blackstaff Press. Journal Publication: Selections of her poems have featured in anthologies and journals
such as The Irish Review (1992); Seneca Review
(1993), USA; The Literary Review (1997), USA; New Hibernia
Review (1998), USA; Jumping Off Shadows (1998), Cork
U.P; College English (1996/99), USA; Field Day Anthology
of Irish Writing (V) 2002; The Recorder: Journal of the
American Irish Historical Society (1999/2004/2005), USA;The
Missouri Review (2004), USA; The Southern Review (2005),
USA; The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (2007).Agenda,
Atlantic Crossings (2008); Women Poets Writing in English, Eds Eva
Saltzman & Amy Wack, Seren Press,(2008); Opening Eyes, Cambridge
University Press, 2009 This Hour of the Tide David Wheatley, Irish
Times, Saturday, 21 May, 1994. The Blue Globe Jo Rogers, Book of the Week, Irish Post, London, May,
1998. Claire Hutton,
Irish Times, 19 July, 2003. Hugh McFadden, Books Ireland, Summer 2007. The Poetry Programme:
RTE Radio 1, 2007. The Breakfast Show: TV3, 2003. Print Interviews: Limerick Leader: 10 January, 2004. Published Interviews with writers: Catherine Phil MacCarthy interviews Greg Delanty, PN Review,
Spring 2007. |
