Background
Mary Dorcey was born in 1950 in County Dublin, Ireland.
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(Like Joy in Season, Like Sorrow) Author: Mary Dorcey published on (January, 2002)
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Perhaps the Heart is Constant After All
(Both for her groundbreaking and seductive love poetry and...)
Both for her groundbreaking and seductive love poetry and her unflinching testimony to the travails of aging and death, Mary Dorcey has been acclaimed as a poet of remarkable insight and courageous witness. Her subjects are the enduring questions of humanity: love and loss, sexual passion, separation, aging and death. Passionate, profoundly poignant, in a damaged but radiant world, she seeks always images of redemption.
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Perhaps The Heart Is Constant After All (Paperback) - Common
(Both for her groundbreaking and seductive love poetry and...)
Both for her groundbreaking and seductive love poetry and her unflinching testimony to the travails of aging and death, Mary Dorcey has been acclaimed as a poet of remarkable insight and courageous witness. Her subjects are the enduring questions of humanity: love and loss, sexual passion, separation, aging and death. Passionate, profoundly poignant, in a damaged but radiant world, she seeks alway...
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Perhaps the Heart is Constant After All by Mary Dorcey (2013) Paperback
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Like Joy in Season, Like Sorrow (Salmon Poetry)
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Moving into the Space Cleared by our Mothers
(These poems are the work of a canny and dextrous stylist....)
These poems are the work of a canny and dextrous stylist. Nearly every poem records an important human fact that has hitherto gone unspoken; nearly every poem both marks a past silence and opens a new possibility. This is a truly profound book, a remarkable and valuable achievement"" - Victor Luftig, Brandeis University. Mary Dorcey's work is taught in Irish Studies and Women's Studies Courses at universities in Ireland, Britain, Canada, and the US. Her poetry has been performed on stage, radio, and television.
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Mary Dorcey
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She educated in Ireland and at the Open University and Paris VII University. She taught for a time before becoming a Research Associate at Trinity College, Dublin where for ten years she was a writer in residence at the Centre for Gender and Women"s Studies, Trinity College, Dublin during which time she conducted seminars on contemporary English literature and led a creative writing workshop. She has also taught in University College Dublin
Dorcey lives in Company
Wicklow, Ireland.
Her poetry and fiction which is taught at universities throughout Europe, the United States and Canada. Widely anthologized, it is reproduced in more than one hundred collections. Foreign more than twenty five years her poetry and fiction have attracted a wealth of international research and have been the subject of countless academic essays and critiques.
Her poetry is taught on both the Irish Junior Certificate English course and on the British O Level English curriculum.
"FIRST LOVE" has been selected once more for the revised Junior Cycle.The same poem was included in the British Broadcasting Corporation Anthology "A Hundred Favourite Poems of Childhood." Her poetry has been performed on radio and television (RTÉ, British Broadcasting Corporation, and Channel 4) and her stories have been dramatized for radio (British Broadcasting Corporation) and for stage productions in Ireland, Britain and Australia: "In the Pink" (The Raving Beauties) and, "Sunny Side Plucked."
Much of her work explores issues of sexuality, identity, and the multifaceted lives of women in their role as mothers, daughters, and lovers.
Achievements
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Dorcey won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Literature in 1990 for her Short Story collection A Noise from the Woodshed. Her novel Biography of Desire has been both a best seller and achieved critical acclaim and has been reprinted three times. Her poetry and fiction has won critical attention in Italy where it has been translated and show-cased in the distinguished journal "POESIA." and in "STUDI IRLANDESI." Some of her poetry has also been set to music She has won five major awards for literature from the Arts Council of Ireland: 1990, 1995, 1999 and 2005 and 2008.
Works
book
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Perhaps the Heart is Constant After All
(Both for her groundbreaking and seductive love poetry and...)
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Perhaps The Heart Is Constant After All (Paperback) - Common
(Both for her groundbreaking and seductive love poetry and...)
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Moving into the Space Cleared by our Mothers
(These poems are the work of a canny and dextrous stylist....)
- (Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers) Author: Mary Dorcey published on (January, 1998)
- (Like Joy in Season, Like Sorrow) Author: Mary Dorcey published on (January, 2002)
- Perhaps the Heart is Constant After All by Mary Dorcey (2013) Paperback
- Like Joy in Season, Like Sorrow (Salmon Poetry)
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Perhaps the Heart is Constant After All
Politics
Her themes include the cathartic role of the outsider, the nature of desire, violence and political oppression. Above all she has won popular and critical acclaim for her portrayal of romantic and erotic relationships between women and her subversive and tender view of the mother/daughter dynamic.
Membership
Aosdána]
Dorcey identifies as a lesbian and is an active feminist.She has published five collections of poetry, one novel, one collection of short stories and one novella.She has lived in the United States, England, France, Spain and Japan.She is a member of Aosdána the Irish Academy of Writers and Artists.
