Gerry Hanberry
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Gerard Hanberry, Award-winning Irish poet Irish
poet
, born 1955, lives in Galway, Ireland.
Gerard Hanberry has published three collections of poetry to date and also a biography of the Wilde family 'More Lives Than One - The Remarkable Wilde Family Through the Generations'published by the Collins Press in 2011. His most recent poetry collection is 'At Grattan Road' published by Salmon Poetry in 2009.Paul Perry, reviewing the collection for The Irish Times said it was 'bursting at the seams with fine poems'. Gerard's first collection 'Rough Night' was published in 2002 by Stonebridge Publications, Wales. This was followed in 2005 by 'Something Like Lovers', also from Stonebridge Publications. In summer 2004 Gerard won the Brendan Kennelly/Sunday Tribune Poetry Award.
Gerard Hanberry’s poetry has been published widely in many literary journals and newspapers and as been shortlisted for many of Ireland’s top poetry prizes including a Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Award in 2000, Strokestown Prize 2003 and RTÉ’s Rattlebag Poetry Slam 2003. Gerard won the Galway City and Co. Council's Poetry Award for National Poetry Day 2009, the poem can be read at the external link for Advertiser below. In 2000 he won the Originals Short Story prize in Listowel Writers Week. An early draft of his biography of Oscar Wilde and his extraordinary family 'More Lives Than One' was shortlisted for the Kingston University Non-Fiction Prize.A fourth collection of poems will be published by Salmon in 2012. He has been invited to read and deliver workshops at many literature festivals and been broadcast on Lyric FM, Galway Bay F.M., Newstalk, Cape Cod Radio in US and RTE. His poems have appeared on Dublin's Dart , the Irish equivalent of Poetry on the Underground.
Hanberry holds an MA in Writing from the National University of Ireland, Galway where he teaches a Creative Writing course to undergraduates. He is also a teacher of English at St. Enda's College, Salthill. He was a journalist during the 1980s and 1990s, writing a weekly column for the Galway Observer under the name 'Joe Barry'. In addition he performs regularly as a singer-songwriter on the Connacht
circuit and runs occasional creative writing and poetry appreciation workshops.
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, born 1955, lives in Galway, Ireland.
Gerard Hanberry has published three collections of poetry to date and also a biography of the Wilde family 'More Lives Than One - The Remarkable Wilde Family Through the Generations'published by the Collins Press in 2011. His most recent poetry collection is 'At Grattan Road' published by Salmon Poetry in 2009.Paul Perry, reviewing the collection for The Irish Times said it was 'bursting at the seams with fine poems'. Gerard's first collection 'Rough Night' was published in 2002 by Stonebridge Publications, Wales. This was followed in 2005 by 'Something Like Lovers', also from Stonebridge Publications. In summer 2004 Gerard won the Brendan Kennelly/Sunday Tribune Poetry Award.
Gerard Hanberry’s poetry has been published widely in many literary journals and newspapers and as been shortlisted for many of Ireland’s top poetry prizes including a Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Award in 2000, Strokestown Prize 2003 and RTÉ’s Rattlebag Poetry Slam 2003. Gerard won the Galway City and Co. Council's Poetry Award for National Poetry Day 2009, the poem can be read at the external link for Advertiser below. In 2000 he won the Originals Short Story prize in Listowel Writers Week. An early draft of his biography of Oscar Wilde and his extraordinary family 'More Lives Than One' was shortlisted for the Kingston University Non-Fiction Prize.A fourth collection of poems will be published by Salmon in 2012. He has been invited to read and deliver workshops at many literature festivals and been broadcast on Lyric FM, Galway Bay F.M., Newstalk, Cape Cod Radio in US and RTE. His poems have appeared on Dublin's Dart , the Irish equivalent of Poetry on the Underground.
Hanberry holds an MA in Writing from the National University of Ireland, Galway where he teaches a Creative Writing course to undergraduates. He is also a teacher of English at St. Enda's College, Salthill. He was a journalist during the 1980s and 1990s, writing a weekly column for the Galway Observer under the name 'Joe Barry'. In addition he performs regularly as a singer-songwriter on the Connacht
Connacht
Connacht , formerly anglicised as Connaught, is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the west of Ireland. In Ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for...
circuit and runs occasional creative writing and poetry appreciation workshops.
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