“The poet laureate of the contemporary Irish-in-America. Delanty has catalogued an entire generation and its relationship to exile. He is the laureate of those who have gone.” – Colum McCann
“No poet I know of has grappled more insistently and more successfully with the tough moment our planet finds itself in than the great Vermont and Irish poet Greg Delanty.” – Bill McKibben
“…he also writes poems that belong to neither place – visionary poems that transcend locality entirely and embrace larger human concerns.” – Archie Burnett
“A true poet.” – Christopher Ricks
Greg Delanty was born in Cork City, Ireland, and maintains dual citizenship in Ireland and the United States, where he has lived since 1986. He is the author of Book Seventeen, The Ship of Birth, and No More Time, among many other books, and he has received numerous awards for his poetry, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont. His next title, The Professor of Forgetting, is forthcoming from LSU Press.