“Being Sensible”: Paul Durcan’s Anarchic Vision

Authors

"“Being Sensible”: Paul Durcan’s Anarchic Vision", by Katie Donovan.

Katie Donovan

Katie Donovan studied at Trinity College Dublin and at the University of California at Berkeley. She worked for The Irish Times for thirteen years as a journalist in the Features Department and is also a qualified Amatsu practitioner (a form of Japanese osteopathy). She has published five books of poetry, all with Bloodaxe Books, UK. Her most recent collection, Off-Duty, appeared in September 2016 and was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Poetry Now Prize, 2017. She is the 2017 recipient of the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry. Her first collection, Watermelon Man, appeared in 1993. Her second, Entering the Mare, was published in 1997; and her third, Day of the Dead, in 2002. Rootling: New and Selected Poems appeared in 2010. She was Writer-in-Residence for Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown (2006-8) and lecturer in Creative Writing, with a focus on poetry, in NUI Maynooth (2015-17). She is co-editor, with Brendan Kennelly and A. Norman Jeffares, of the anthology, “Ireland’s Women: Writings Past and Present” (Gill and Macmillan, Ireland; Kyle Cathie, UK, 1994; Norton & Norton, US, 1996). She is the author of “Irish Women Writers: Marginalised by Whom?” (Raven Arts Press, 1988, 1991). With Brendan Kennelly she is the co-editor of “Dublines” (Bloodaxe, 1996), an anthology of writings about Dublin.