Tony Curtis (born 1955) is an Irish poet.[1]

Curtis was born in Dublin, and educated at the University of Essex and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1993 he won the Poetry Ireland/Friends Provident National Poetry Competition.[2] In 2018 he won the 2018 O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award presented by the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.[3] He also works in education under the Skagit River Poetry Project schools programme.[4]

Curtis is a member of Aosdána[5]

Works

• The Shifting of Stones (1986)
• Behind the Green Curtain (1988)
• This Far North (1994)
• Three Songs of Home (1998)
• The Book of Winter Cures (2002)
• What Darkness Covers (2003)
• The Well in the Rain (2006)
• Days Like These (with Paula Meehan and Theo Dorgan) (2008)
• Folk (2011)
• Sandworks (with the Irish photographer Liam Blake) (2011)
• An Elephant Called Rex (illustrated by Pat Mooney) (2011)
• Aran Currach (with the Irish photographer Liam Blake) (2013)
• Pony (with the artist David Lilburn) (2013)
• Approximately in the Key of C (2015)
• This Flight Tonight (2019)

References

External links

Tony Curtis: Irish Poetry Reading Archive, UCD