Matthew Sweeney
Encyclopedia
Life
He graduated from Gormanston CollegeGormanston College
Gormanston College is a private, fee-paying, coeducational Catholic secondary school under the trusteeship of the Franciscan Province of Ireland. The College is located at Gormanston Castle , near Gormanston, County Meath, about north of Dublin, Ireland.The student body numbers around 600 and...
, Polytechnic of North London and University of Freiburg
University of Freiburg
The University of Freiburg , sometimes referred to in English as the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg dynasty as the...
, in 1979.
He had residencies at the University of East Anglia
University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...
, and South Bank Centre
South Bank Centre
Southbank Centre is a complex of artistic venues in London, UK, on the South Bank of the River Thames between County Hall and Waterloo Bridge. It comprises three main buildings , and is Europe’s largest centre for the arts. It attracts more than three million visitors annually...
.
He has lived for many years in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
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Awards
- 1984 New Statesman Prudence Farmer Award
- 1987 Cholmondeley AwardCholmondeley AwardThe Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966...
- 1999 Arts Council Writers' Award
- 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist)
- 2008 Poetry Now AwardPoetry Now AwardThe Poetry Now Award is an annual literary prize presented for the best single volume of poetry by an Irish poet. The €5,000 award is presented during the annual Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Poetry Now international poetry festival. The festival began in 1996 and the first Poetry Now Award was bestowed...
(shortlist) for his collection, Black Moon.
External links
- "Author's website"
- Ireland - Poetry International Web, author page with poem audio files
- Some Sweeney Poems http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue%202/Matthew%20Sweeney%202.html
- 'Review of The Night Post http://carolinemarycrew.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/matthew-sweeneys-the-night-post-a-new-selection/