Wake Forest University Press

Harry Clifton was born in Dublin, but has lived in Africa and Asia, and throughout Europe.
He has published six collections of poems, including The Liberal Cage (1988) and The Desert Route: Selected Poems 1973–1988 (1992). In 2007, Wake Forest University Press published Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004, which won the 2008 Irish Times Poetry Now Award, the most prestigious poetry prize in Ireland. His newest volume, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass, came out in the spring of 2012. His poems have been translated into several European languages, and Le Canto d’Ulysse, his selected poems in French, was published in 1996. Among many awards, he has received the Patrick Kavanagh Award, two Arts Council Bursaries in Literature, and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award.  He was an International Fellow at Iowa University, has represented Ireland at the Iowa International Writers’ Program, and has been Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place, New Hampshire. He returned to Ireland in 2004, and is currently the Ireland Chair of Poetry.