Ailbhe Darcy
Irish poet
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Ailbhe Darcy (born 1981) is an Irish poet and Wales Book of the Year award laureate.
Notablework
- Insistence (2018)
Awards
- Wales Book of the Year (2019)
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| Born | Ailbhe Darcy 1981 (age 44–45) |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin University of Notre Dame |
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Biography
Ailbhe Darcy was born in 1981 and grew up in Dublin, Ireland.[1] In 2015, she was awarded an MFA and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame.[2] She won the 2019 Wales Book of the Year[3][4] and the Pigott Poetry Prize at the 2019 Listowel Writers' Week with her collection Insistence,[5] which was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize[6] and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award.[7]
Darcy is a Reader in Creative Writing at Cardiff University.[8]
Darcy lives in Cardiff.
Bibliography
Poetry
- A Fictional Dress (Tall Lighthouse, 2009)
- —— (2011). Imaginary Menagerie. Bloodaxe. ISBN 9781852249014.
- ——; Fowler, SJ (2017). Subcritical Tests. Gorse Editions. ISBN 9780992804787.
- —— (2018). Insistence. Bloodaxe. ISBN 9781780370781.
Prose
- A History of Irish Women's Poetry (co-edited with David Wheatley, Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- Virtuosity: Risk and Excess in Poetic Form (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
