Alan Gillis is a poet and critic. His first book of poetry, Somebody, Somewhere, was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2005, and won The Strong Award for best first collection in Ireland. His second book, Hawks and Doves, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2007. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and The Queen’s University of Belfast, and was previously Lecturer in Irish Literature at The University of Ulster, and Research Fellow at The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at The Queen’s University of Belfast.
As a critic, his main interests are in modern and contemporary poetry. He is also interested in modern and contemporary Irish literature, having published on figures such as W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Louis MacNeice and Patrick Kavanagh. He is currently writing on links between modern Irish and Scottish poetry, and essays on contemporary British and Irish poets. Also, he is researching for a book on modern poetics focusing on Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Robert Frost, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Robert Lowell.
Bibliography
- Somebody, Somewhere (The Gallery Press, 2004) ISBNs: 1852353732, 1852353724.
- Hawks and Doves (The Gallery Press, 2007). ISBNs: 1852354178, 1852354186.
- Irish Poetry of the 1930s (Oxford University Press, 2005). ISBN: 0199277095.
- Critical Ireland: New Essays in Literature and Culture, co-edited with Aaron Kelly (Four Courts Press, 2001). ISBNs: 1851825975, 1851825983.
