Wake Forest University Press
Dedicated to Irish Poetry
Peter Fallon
Peter Fallon was born in Germany in 1951 and grew up in County Meath. He is an Honours Graduate of
Trinity College, Dublin, where, in 1994, he was Writer Fellow in the English Department. At the age of eighteen he founded The Gallery Press which is recognized as Ireland’s pre-eminent literary publishing house.
His collections of poems include The Speaking Stones (1978), Winter Work (1983), The News and Weather (1987), Eye to Eye (1992) and The Deerfield Series: Strength of Heart (1997). Wake Forest published his selected poems, News of the World, in 1993. An expanded edition, News of the World: Selected and New Poems, was published in Ireland in 1998. The Georgics of Virgil, a translation, was published in September 2004, and The Company of Horses, in September 2007.
Peter Fallon received the 1993 O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award from the Irish American Cultural Institute. He has been Poet in Residence at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and, in the Spring of 2000, he was the inaugural Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University, PA, which conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate. He is a member of Aosdána and lives with his family in Loughcrew in County Meath.
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