Career
He lives in Galway, Ireland. Gerard Hanberry has published four collections of poetry to date and also a biography of the Wilde family, More Lives Than One - The Remarkable Wilde Family Through the Generations (Collins Press, 2011). His most recent poetry collection is "What Our Shoes Say About Us" published by Salmon Poetry in July 2014.
This follows the collection "At Grattan Road" published by Salmon Poetry in 2009.
Paul Perry, reviewing the collection "At Grattan Road" for the Irish Times, said it was "bursting at the seams with fine poems". Hanberry"s first collection, Rough Night, was published in 2002 by Stonebridge Publications, Wales.
This was followed in 2005 by Something Like Lovers, also from Stonebridge Publications. An early draft of his biography of Oscar Wilde and his extraordinary family More Lives Than One was shortlisted for the Kingston University Non-Fiction Prize.
He has been invited to read and deliver workshops at many literature festivals and been broadcast on Lyric FM, Galway Bay FM, Newstalk, Midwest Radio, Cape Cod Radio in the United States, Ireland"s Raidió Teilifís Éireann and in Australia.
His poems have appeared on Dublin"s Dart, the Irish equivalent of Poems on the Underground. Hanberry holds an Master of Arts in Writing from the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he teaches a Creative Writing course to undergraduates. He is also a teacher of English at Saint Enda"s College, Salthill.
He was a journalist during the 1980s and 1990s, writing a weekly column for the Galway Observer under the name "Joe Barry".
In addition he performs regularly as a singer-songwriter and runs occasional creative writing and poetry appreciation workshops.
