{"title":"Iggy McGovern","description":"Iggy McGovern was born in Coleraine and resides in Dublin where he is Associate Professor of Physics at Trinity College. His poetry has been widely published in anthologies and journals in Ireland and abroad, as well as in the popular 'Poetry in Motion' series on trains in the Dublin suburban rail system (DART). Well-known for his witty, playful, but emotionally engaged poems, McGovern is the recipient of the McCrae Literary Award and the Hennessy Literary Award for poetry. Originally published in November 2005 in a special pocket-sized edition, and already reprinted, some four months later, in a new standard format, \u003cem\u003eThe King of Suburbia\u003c\/em\u003e is his first collection. 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Fittingly, Christopher Murray, a colleague from UCD, where Harmon taught poetry for decades, reminded the throng that we were also celebrating the talents of a man still very much in harness. 'Maurice’s own work as a poet is an extension of his work as a life-long lover of and commentator on poetry, especially Irish poetry from earliest times to the present.'...\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e, June 2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to being a poet, \u003cb\u003eMaurice Harmon\u003c\/b\u003e is the leading scholar-critic of his generation in the field of Anglo-Irish Literature. He pioneered its development as an academic discipline and is the author of a number of significant works, from a basic bibliographical guide to headline studies of Seán O’Faoláin, Austin Clarke, Thomas Kinsella, and others. 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