James Liddy

James Liddy (1934–2008) was an Irish poet, born in Dublin, Ireland.

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His poetry publications include Esau, My Kingdom for a drink (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1962); In a Blue Smoke (The Dolmen Press, 1964); Blue Mountain (The Dolmen Press, 1968); A Life of Stephan Dedalus (San Francisco, White Rabbit Press, 1969); A Munster Song of Love and War (White Rabbit Press,1971); Baudelaire’s Bar Flowers (San Francisco, Capra Press, 1975); Corca Baiscinn (The Dolmen Press, 1977); Comyn’s Lay (The Dolmen Press, 1978); Chamber Pot Music (Berkeley, CA, Hit & Run Press,1982); At The Grave of Father Sweetman (Naas, Malton Press, 1984); A White Thought in a White Shade (New & Selected Poems, Dublin, Kerr’s Pinks, 1987); Art is not for Grown-Ups (1990); In the Slovak Bowling Alley (Milwaukee, The Blue Canary Press/ Dublin, Kerr’s Pinks, 1990); Trees Warmer than Green Notes towards a Video of Avondale (Portlaoise, The International University Press, 1991); Collected Poems (Nebraska, Creighton University Press, 1995; Epitaphery (San Francisco, White Rabbit Press, 1998); Gold Set Dancing (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Poetry, 2000); Yeats: New Ways of Falling in Love (White Rabbit, 2003); I Only Know That I Love Strength in My Friends and Greatness (Dublin, Arlen House, 2003); On the Raft with Fr. Roseliep (Arlen House, 2006); Askeaton Sequence (Arlen House, 2009); Wexford and Arcady (Arlen House, 2009); Fest City (Arlen House, 2010); It Swings From Side to Side (Arlen House, 2011); Rome That Heavenly Country (Arlen House, 2011); and Selected Poems, edited with a Foreword by John Redmond and Afterword by Tyler Farrell (Arlen House, 2011).

His novel Young Men Go Walking was published in Triad, by Wolfhound of Dublin in 1986. His two volumes of memoir are The Doctor’s House (Salmon Poetry, 2004); and The Full Shilling (Salmon Poetry, 2009).

Along with Michael Hartnett and Liam O’Connor, he edited the seminal Arena, 1963–1965. A facsimile, This was Arena/introduced by James Liddy, was published by the Malton Press in 1982.

Commentary on his work includes Brian Arkins, James Liddy: A Critical Study ( Arlen House 2001); and Michael Begnal, ed., Honeysuckle, Honeyjuice: A Festschrift for James Liddy (Arlen Press/Cornell UP 2006).

He was a member of Aosdána, and lived and taught in Kenosha, WI at UW-Parkside in 1970 and 1971, and later at UW-M in Milwaukee,WI in the USA.

He died on November 5, 2008.

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