Tony Curtis (Irish poet)

Tony Curtis (born 1955) is an Irish poet.

Curtis was born in Dublin, and educated at the University of Essex and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1993 he won the Poetry Ireland/Friends Provident National Poetry Competition. He also works in education under the Skagit River Poetry Project schools programme.

The Shifting of Stones This book's publish date is January 1986. There are 65 pages and it was published by Beaver Row Press. The 10 digit ISBN is 0946308411 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780946308415. This is very rare book and has been out of print for many years.

Behind the Green Door Paperback: 52 pages Publisher: Beaver Row Press (1988) Language: English This is very rare book and has been out of print for many years.

This Far North Paperback: 74 pages Publisher: Dedalus Pr (1 January 1994) Language: English

This work gathers together poems that have been widely published in Ireland and else-where and includes the prize-winning poem and widely noted sequence of poems, "From a Famine Journal".

Three Songs of Home Paperback: 70 pages Publisher: Dedalus Pr (March 1999) Language: English

Tony Curtis writes, even on complex matters, with disarming ease. In this new collection he has pared his work down to the bone, achieving, in many of these poems, the strength and mystery of myth and fable. The poet journeys into the high Himalayas where he faces his own mortality. What he brings back is a book haunted by ghosts and demons, by illusions, dreams, memories, and desires, in other words a richly experienced and carefully shared wisdom, offered in an immediate yet subtle series of poems.

As one reviewer on Amazon.com stated. “All i can say about this book is WOW. It's absolutely amazing how the author collected so many poems and put them in a book and made them so incredibly wonderful to read through. This is for anyone who cares anything about poetry. Get this book and even if you dislike poetry, I'm sure you'll love it after reading this book.”

What Darkness Covers Paperback: 88 pages Publisher: Arc Publications (23 June 2003) Language: English

Review "Tony Curtis makes beautiful poems – compassionate, funny, elegiac. He's a song master, a riddler, a humdinger. He honours Samuel Beckett and his Granny with equal gusto. His Black Hills of Balrothery are as far reaching as the Himalayas and he see great distances from the peaks of both. But he is also a poker under rocks and a hoker in hedgerows; he finds a universe in a grain of sand. He is unique in contemporary Irish poetry, foraging and forging the uncreated, breaking all our hears." Paula Meehan"

Description Includes strange resonances which emerge from the Irish landscape and way of life, and the poet's insight into a poet's existence.

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