Trevor Joyce & Brian Turner (Poetry)

Introduction 00:00 – 03:20
Trevor Joyce 03:20 – 31:44
Introduction 31:44 – 33:35
Brian Turner 33:35 – 53:05
Discussion 53:05 – 1:06:24

Trevor Joyce was born in Dublin, where he co-founded New Writers’ Press in 1967. He moved to Cork in 1984, where he co-founded the SoundEye Festival in 1997. His work explores the possibilities of found text, computer-mediated composition, writing under constraint, and radical approaches to translation. His books include with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold (2001) and What’s in Store (2014). His Selected Poems was published in 2014. His most recent books include two translations from the English of Edmund Spenser, Rome’s Wreck (2014) and Fastness (2017). Joyce served as Visiting Fellow in Poetry to the University of Cambridge in 2009/10, and was awarded in Italy the N.C. Kaser Poetry Prize in 2016. He is a member of Aosdána.

Brian Turner served in the US army for seven years with deployments to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq. His 2005 collection Here, Bullet (first published in the US by Alice James Books) received nine major literary awards including a 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship and a 2007 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry. His second collection, Phantom Noise, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize (Bloodaxe, 2010). His memoir My Life as a Foregin Country was published by Jonathan Cape in 2014. He is the inaugural John Montague International Poetry Fellow.

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