SOS Lusitania (15 page)
Authors: Kevin Kiely
Kevin Kiely – poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, American Fulbright Scholar, PhD in modernist poetry – was born in County Down, Northern Ireland. Books:
Quintesse
(St Martin’s Press, New York);
Mere Mortals; Plainchant for a Sundering Lapwing; Breakfast with Sylvia
, winner of the Patrick Kavanagh fellowship 2006;
Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast
, The Wellkinn Complex;
Sweeney: Patron of Modernist and Postmodernist Poetry at Woodberry Poetry Room
Harvard 1942-1976
; ‘A Map of Melancholy’, long poem in
Widows
anthology, eds Heather Brett and Noel Monahan 2012. Plays on RTE:
Children of No Importance
and
Multiple Indiscretions
. His other novel for young readers is
A Horse Called El Dorado
, which won a Bisto Honour Award.
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