Theo Dorgan is a poet with ten collections in print, the most recent of which is ONCE WAS A BOY — chosen as One City One Book 2024 in his native Cork. He is also a translator, editor, non-fiction prose author, essayist, novelist, broadcaster and documentary screenwriter. Volumes of his work have been published in Spanish, Italian, Greek and French, while among his own translations are three collections from the French of Syrian poet Maram al Masri and a version in Irish Gaelic of Lorca’s ROMANCERO GITANO. Literature Officer with Triskel Arts Centre. Director of Poetry Ireland 1989-2000. Member of Aosdána.
Theo Dorgan is a poet with ten collections in print, the most recent of which is ONCE WAS A BOY — chosen as One City One Book 2024 in his native Cork. He is also a translator, editor, non-fiction prose author, essayist, novelist, broadcaster and documentary screenwriter. Volumes of his work have been published in Spanish, Italian, Greek and French, while among his own translations are three collections from the French of Syrian poet Maram al Masri and a version in Irish Gaelic of Lorca’s ROMANCERO GITANO. Literature Officer with Triskel Arts Centre. Director of Poetry Ireland 1989-2000. Member of Aosdána.
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