{"title":"Mary Dorcey","description":"The award winning short story writer, poet and novelist, Mary Dorcey was born in County Dublin, Ireland. In 1990 she won the Rooney Prize for Literature for her short story collection \u003cem\u003eA Noise from the Woodshed\u003c\/em\u003e. Her best selling novel \u003cem\u003eBiography of Desire\u003c\/em\u003e (Poolbeg) was published in September of 1997 to critical acclaim and reprinted three months later, and is now about to go into its third reprint. In 1990 she published a novella, 'Scarlet O'Hara', contained in the anthology \u003cem\u003eIn and Out of Time\u003c\/em\u003e (Onlywomen Press). She has published four volumes of poetry: \u003cem\u003eKindling\u003c\/em\u003e (Only Women Press, 1982), \u003cem\u003eMoving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e (Salmon Poetry, 1991), \u003cem\u003eThe River That Carries Me\u003c\/em\u003e (Salmon Poetry, 1995), and \u003cem\u003eLike Joy In Season, Like Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e (Salmon, 2001). She has been awarded three Art Council Bursaries for literature, in 1990 and 1995 and 1999. Her work is now taught on Irish Studies and Women's Studies courses in universities internationally. Several theses have been published on her work and numerous critical essays. Her stories and poems have been anthologized in more than one hundred collections. Her poetry was taught on both the Irish Junior Certificate English course and on the British O Level English curriculum. It has been performed on radio and television (R.T.E. and Channel 4.) It has also been dramatized for stage productions in Ireland, Britain and Australia in \u003cem\u003eIn the Pink (The Raving Beauties)\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSunny Side Plucked\u003c\/em\u003e. For over fifteen years she has given talks and readings of her work at major art festivals and at universities and book shops throughout Ireland, Britain and Europe, and the United States. She has lived in The United States, England, France, Spain and Japan. She is at present a Research Associate at Trinity College Dublin. She is writer in residence at the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies where she gives seminars in contemporary English literature and leads a creative writing workshop.\n","products":[{"product_id":"the-white-page-an-bhileog-bhan-twentieth-century-irish-women-poets-2007-edition","title":"The White Page \/ An Bhileog Bhan: Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets (2007 Edition)","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe White Page\/An Bhileog Bhán\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive study of Irish women's poetry published in book form in the twentieth century. It takes the form of an extended annotated directory, including biographical and bibliographical detail on each poet. Poems and photographs, generously donated by the poets themselves, are also included. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoets born in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as poets of Irish ancestry and non-nationals who have been resident and writing in Ireland for long periods are included. A reference book for students of Irish literature it is also a poetry anthology representing poets who have published at least one collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent anthology and critical, bibliographical and biographical directory. Salmon, who have contributed enormously to making poetry a popular and regular shopping commodity, have excelled themselves. For every shelf.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe White Page\/An Bhileog Bhán\u003c\/i\u003e is beautifully produced, and testifies to McBreen's dedication to and enthusiasm for Irish women writers. Every fan of poetry and women's writing will find their own surprises and pleasures in this collection, which marks a particular historic moment in Irish literature. This anthology offers a wealth of information about the publishing history of women poets since the 1970s, when only 13 of the contributors were in print... Of the 113 poets McBreen catalogues, more than half published their first collections in the 1990s. Salmon, which publishes this volume, has published more first collections by women than any single publisher during that decade.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This must-have for thorough poetry collections offers samples of more than a hundred Irish women poets who have published at least one volume of poetry. It's comprehensiveness alone would make it an invaluable introduction to an enormously creative community of poets... The first lady of Irish letters, Eavan Boland, joins Mary Dorcey, Medbh McGuckian, Iris Murdoch, and scores of others better known in their homeland than in America. Just one poem by each poet appears, which leaves the reader wanting more, but extensive biographic and bibliographic annotation compensate somewhat. A candy sampler of a book for poetry lovers.\"\u003cbr\u003ePatricia Monaghan, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor \u003cb\u003eJoan McBreen\u003c\/b\u003e's 2009 publications include a collection, \u003ci\u003eHeather Island\u003c\/i\u003e and the anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets\u003c\/i\u003e. Together with her ongoing involvement with Irish literary festivals such as the Yeats Summer School, Clifden Arts Week, Listowel Writers' Week and The Cúirt International Festival of Literature, since 2007 she has been Literary Advisor and co-ordinator of the Oliver St. John Gogarty Literary Festival at Renvyle House Hotel, Connemara, Co. 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