WIS Database of Writers
- Name
- Gerald Dawe
- County
- Dublin
- Genre
- Poet
- Sessions
- Discussion with Writer, Reading and Q&A, Master Class
- Age Group
- 16 - 18
- Level
- Post Primary
- Languages
- Works in English ONLY
- Availability
- Limited Availability
- Travel
- Yes
Publications/ repertoire/
productions & background experience
Poetry: Sheltering Places (1978), The Lundys Letter (1985), Sunday School (1991), Heart of Hearts (1995), The Morning Train (1999), Lake Geneva (2003), Points West (2008). Prose: The Proper Word: Collected Criticism (2007), My Mother-City, a memoir (2007), The World as Province: Selected Prose (2009) and Conversations: Poets & Poetry (2011). Numerous anthologies of criticism and Irish poetry, and editions of individual poets' work including W.B. Yeats, Padraic Fiacc and Stewart Parker. Earth Voices Whispering: Irish War Poetry, 1914-1945 appeared in 2009.
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Session Details
1 Small groups only, reading and question and answers preferably
2 Workshop on writing, poetry and fiction
3 Seminar on reading or writing
Age Group Details
Pre and Leaving Certificate classes only
Availability Details
Very limited availability, advance notice/ contact essential
- Address
- C/o School of English, Trinity College, Dublin 2
- Telephone
- (01) 8961346
- gdawe@tcd.ie
- Website
- www.gerald-dawe.net
