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Moya Cannon
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Irish Poet Moya Cannon at BU Castle. Tuesday, October 10, 2015.
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| Born | 1956 (age 68–69) Dunfanaghy, County Donegal, Ireland |
| Occupation | Poet, writer |
Moya Cannon, born in 1956, is a well-known Irish writer and poet. She has published seven collections of her poems. Her most recent collection is called Collected Poems, which came out in 2021.
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About Moya Cannon
Moya Cannon was born in a place called Dunfanaghy in County Donegal, Ireland. She went to college at University College Dublin and Cambridge. There, she studied history and politics.
Her Career and Teaching
After college, Moya moved to Galway and became a teacher. She taught in a special school for teenage traveller children. She also taught creative writing classes at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She even helped lead an international writing course there.
Her Poetry Collections
Moya Cannon's Collected Poems was published in 2021. Before that, her sixth collection, Donegal Tarantella, came out in 2019. Her very first book of poems, Oar, was published in 1990. It won an award called the Brendan Behan Memorial Award in 1991.
What Her Poems Are About
Moya Cannon's poems often explore interesting topics like history, archaeology, and ancient art. She also writes about geology, which is the study of rocks and the Earth, and music. She uses these subjects to help us understand our connection to the Earth and our past. A very important theme in her poems is migration. This means the movement of things, like birds flying to different places, people moving, and even how cultures travel and change over time.
Readings and Recognition
Moya Cannon has been invited to read her poems in many places around the world. She has read in Ireland, different countries in Europe, North and South America, Japan, and India. Some of her poems have even been translated into other languages like Spanish, Portuguese, and German.
She received the O'Shaughnessy Award in 2001. In 2011, she was a special professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University. She has also been the editor of Poetry Ireland Review and is a member of Aosdána, which is a group that honors Irish artists.
External Links
- Carcanet Press - Moya Cannon
- Aosdána General Assembly
- Irish Writers Online / Author - Moya Cannon
- IHE GALLERY PRESS - Moya Cannon
- View readings in the Irish Poetry Reading Archive, UCD Digital Library, University College Dublin
- Interview with Moya Cannon by Patrick O'Donnell as part of the O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award by the University of St. Thomas Center for Irish Studies, St. Paul, Minnesota (March 27, 2001)
