Matthew Sweeney
Author

Poemas

Poker inglés

Traducciones: de hu ja lv nl ro sk

The Hat inglés

Traducciones: de es lv ro sk

Do not throw stones at this sign inglés

Traducciones: de ro es nl sk

In the dust inglés

Traducciones: de hr sk sr

Hair inglés

Traducciones: de sk sr

The Ice Hotel inglés

Traducciones: de ro nl ja sk

No Sugar inglés

Traducciones: de sk

The Doors inglés

Traducciones: de nl sk

The Snowy Owl inglés

Traducciones: de nl sk sr

Naked inglés

Traducciones: de sk sr

Matthew Sweeney
Author

About

* 06.10.1952, Donegal, Irlanda
† 05.08.2018, Irlanda

Matthew Sweeney was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1952. He moved to London in 1973 and studied at the Polytechnic of North London and the University of Freiburg.

His poetry collections include “A Dream of Maps” (1981), “A Round House” (1983), “Blue Shoes” (1989), “Cacti” (1992), “The Bridal Suite” (1997) and “A Smell of Fish” (2000), “Sanctuary” (2004). Selected Poems, representing the best of ten books and twenty years' work, was published in 2002.

Sweeney won a Cholmondeley Award in 1987 and an Arts Council Writers' Award in 1999. He has also published poetry and novels for children. His work is increasingly appearing in translation.

Matthew Sweeney has held residencies at the University of East Anglia and the South Bank Centre in London, and was Poet in Residence at the National Library for the Blind as part of the 'Poetry Places' scheme run by the Poetry Society in London.

Matthew Sweeney died of motor neurone disease in 2018.