Poetry

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High Talk (Editions Phi, 2022)

This long-awaited first collection (38 years in the making) was finally published in 2022 by Editions Phi, the premier poetry publisher of Luxembourg. It contains prize-winning poems spanning a lifetime.

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High Talk can also be bought at bookstores in Luxembourg, including Ernster, Alinea, and Fnac.

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Awards

• Moth Poetry Prize: Judged by Claudia Raskine, Commended (2020) - "And then the Quail Came"
• Anthony Cronin International Poetry Award, 2nd Place (2018) - "Europe, 1945"

• Gregory O'Donohue International Poetry Competition, Shortlisted (2018) - "Goethe in Rome"

• Ballymaloe Poetry Prize, 2nd Place (2015) - "Phoebe and the Troopship"

• Newdigate Prize for Poetry (1984) - "Fear"

Prizegiving at the Centre National de Littérature, 2016 / Chronicle.lu

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Anthologies

• Mir wëlle bleiwen, wat mir ginn. Gedichter aus Lëtzebuerg (Luxembourg Ministry of Culture, 2021) - "Memories of Abu Dhabi", "Ode to Gaea"
• Le Journal Des Poetes, No. 1 (Le Taillis Pré, 2021) - "Plums, August", "Sunday Morning: Valencia"
  
• Fresh from the Fountain: English Writing in Luxembourg (Black Fountain Press, 2019) - "A&E"
• Fundstücke/Trouvailles (Centre National de Littérature, 2018) - "On Heaven", "The Emergency Room", "Treaty of Rome" and "Roger, Rudjar, Ruggero"
• The Stony Thursday Book, No. 16  (Limerick Culture and Arts, 2018) - "Toes"

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