Ciaran Berry Explained

Ciaran Berry
Birth Date:	1971
Birth Place:	Dublin
Alma Mater:	New York University
Genre:	Poetry
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Ciaran Berry (born 1971 Dublin) is an Irish-American poet.

Life

He grew up in Carna, County Galway, and Falcarragh, County Donegal.^{[1] [2]}

He graduated from New York University, a New York Times Fellow.He teaches at Trinity College, Hartford.^[3]

His work appeared in Gulf Coast,^[4] AGNI,^[5] Crazyhorse,^[6] The Missouri Review,^[7] The Threepenny Review,^[8] Gettysburg Review,^[9] Green Mountains Review,^[10] Ontario Review,^[11] and Notre Dame Review.

Awards

• 2007 Crab Orchard Award
• Jerwood Aldeburgh first collection prize^[12]
• 2012 Whiting Award^[13]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

• Book: Berry, Ciaran . The sphere of birds. Southern Illinois University Press. 2008. 9780809328383 . 836596491.
• Book: Berry, Ciaran . 1 . The dead zoo . The Gallery Press. 2013. 9781852355692 . 864085140 .

List of poems

width=25%	Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Electrocuting an elephant			Book: Berry, Ciaran . The sphere of birds. Southern Illinois University Press. 2008 . Book: Wright, Charles . The best American Poetry 2008 . registration . Scribner . 2008 . 9780743299756 . Poem of the Week - 25 January 2009

Critical studies and reviews of Berry's work

• Cooke, Belinda . Jun–Jul 2014 . [<!--accessdate=--> Nasty, brutish and short ]. . 99–104 . Review of The dead zoo.

External links

• "An Interview with Ciaran Berry", Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Strong Reading and Award for Best First Collection . Poetry Now . 2009-07-23 .
2. Web site: Ciaran Berry - Bio . Poem of the Week . 2009-01-25 . 2009-07-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727181423/http://www.poemoftheweek.org/id216.html . 2011-07-27 . dead .
3. Web site: Faculty Profiles . 2009-11-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720062238/http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1353304 . 2011-07-20 .
4. Web site: Sideshow . Ciaran Berry . Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts . 2012-06-27.
5. Web site: Author Ciaran Berry . AGNI Magazine . 2008 . 2009-07-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724054954/http://as111.http.sasm3.net/agni/authors/C/Ciaran-Berry.html . 2011-07-24 . dead .
6. Web site: Clayton McCauley . Crazyhorse Number 71 . Crazyhorse.cofc.edu . 2009-07-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080116101700/http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/in-71.html . 2008-01-16 . dead .
7. Web site: The Missouri Review - A Beard of Bees . Project MUSE . Winter 2005 . 2009-07-23.
8. Web site: Threepenny: Issue 101 . The Threepenny Review . Spring 2005 . 2009-07-23.
9. Web site: Winter 2002 | the gettysburg review . The Gettysburg Review . Winter 2002 . 2009-07-23.
10. Web site: Vol. XVIII, No. 1 . Green Mountains Review . 2009-07-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090819174000/http://greenmountainsreview.jsc.vsc.edu/Vol%20XVIII-1%20Table%20of%20Contents.htm . 2009-08-19 . dead .
11. Web site: Ontario Review Press -- Current Issue . 2009-07-23 . dead . https://archive.today/20070711061758/http://www.ontarioreviewpress.com/or_back_issues_pages/or_back_issue_65.html . 2007-07-11 .
12. Web site: Flood . Alison . Sphere of Birds wins Jerwood Aldeburgh prize: Ciaran Berry's debut collection takes £3,000 award . . 2008-11-08 . 2009-07-23.
13. Web site: Donegal poet takes US literary prize . . 2012-11-12 . 2012-11-12 . 25 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121125092734/http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/lifestyle/home-and-garden/donegal-poet-takes-us-literary-prize-1-4468928 . dead .