Iggy McGovern is a poet and academic; he is a professor in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin and has published 2 full collections of poetry with Dedalus Press. He edited the anthology 2012: Twenty Irish Poets Respond to Science in Twelve Lines, published by Dedalus Press in association with Quaternia Press, and co-edited (with Jean-Patrick Connerade) Science Meets Poetry 3, published by Euroscience.
LATEST:
13.05.13 The Irish Poem is… is this week’s choice of The Poetry Project, the on-line celebration of Ireland’s literary and visual creativity, as part of the Culture Programme of the EU Presidency. see thepoetryproject.ie
UPCOMING EVENTS
06.06.13 Launch of the thirteenth issue of Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet. Poems were selected by Iggy McGovern
15.06.13 Bloomsday in Oxford
27-28.07.13 Creative Writing Workshop at the Patrick Kavanagh Centre, directed by Iggy McGovern
Ulymericks, a sequence of 18 limericks based on the chapters of Ulysses, was published in Irish Times Weekend Review on Bloomsday 2012. www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0616/1224318012721.htm
Current project is a sonnet sequence based on the life of William Rowan Hamilton, 19th century Irish Mathematician & Poet; publication is scheduled for Autumn 2013
Books can be obtained directly from the publisher (www.dedaluspress.com), or via other online outlets or they can ordered through local bookshops. Current stock is not guaranteed in the latter but are always available in the following central Dublin outlets:
Books Upstairs in College Green
The Library Shop in Trinity College.
This site consists of 6 more pages, as follows:
Poetry Activity- a listing of activities, recent and planned, such as readings, festivals etc as well as recent book reviews
A selection of poems
Launch of Safe House – a selection of photos
Poems for occasions – University events, exhibition openings, etc
Science Meets Poetry – a developing field
Physics – teaching and research at Trinity College
last updated 23.10.11