Biography

Joan McBreen is from Sligo and now lives in Tuam, County Galway. Her poetry collections are The Wind Beyond the Wall (Story Line Press, Oregon, USA 1990, 1991) and A Walled Garden in Moylough (Story Line Press and Salmon Publishing, County Clare, 1995). Awarded an MA Degree from University College, Dublin in 1997, she compiled and edited The White Page - An Bhileog Bhán - Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets (Salmon Publishing 1999, 2000, 2001).

Her latest collection, Winter in The Eye - New and Selected Poems, was published by Salmon in April 2003. Since 1985 she has been widely published and anthologised both in Ireland and abroad, in particular in the USA. She gives readings and workshops internationally and her poetry has been translated into several languages, including Italian and French.

Her first CD, The Long Light on the Land - Selected Poems by Joan McBreen with Traditional Airs and Classical Music, was launched by Professor Bernard O'Donoghue, poet and academic, Wadham College, Oxford, at the 2004 Yeats Summer School Sligo on August 5th.

Publications

• Winter In The Eye
  "Winter In The Eye"
  New & Selected Poems by Joan McBreen
  
  
• The White Page
  "The White Page"
  Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets
  
  
• A Walled Garden In Moylough
  "A Walled Garden In Moylough"
  Poems by Joan McBreen
  
  
• The Wind Beyond the Wall
  "The Wind Beyond the Wall"
  Poems by Joan McBreen

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