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Irish poet guest – Eileen Sheehan
Eileen Sheehan (Ireland)
Eileen Sheehan is from County Kerry. She has read at festivals in Ireland and abroad including The Shanghai Literary Festival; the ACIS Conference in Davenport, Iowa and The Cork International Poetry Festival. Anthology publications include Best Loved Poems: Favourite Poems from the South of Ireland (editor Gabriel Fitzmaurice with photographs by John Reidy/ Curragh Press); The Deep Heart's Core: Irish Poets Revisit a Touchstone Poem (editors Eugene O'Connell & Pat Boran/ Dedalus Press); and Blackjack, with translations by Oana Lungu (editors Dorina Șișu and Viorel Ploeșteanu / Singur Publishing). A bi-lingual selection of her work, Duet of Lakes: EasternWestern Poets in Sympathy, is published by Junpa Books, with Japanese translations by Maki Starfield. One of the poems from her third collection, The Narrow Way of Souls (Salmon Poetry), is on the Leaving Certificate English Syllabus 2019 - 2022.
Itaca Anul IX / nr. 33, ianuarie, februarie, martie 2021