Background
Montague, John Patrick was born on February 28, 1929 in New York City. Son of James Terence and Mary (Carney) Montague.
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“Montague explores dark emotions and thoughts with wonderful subtlety; he has a deliciously wicked wit and great range.”—Publishers Weekly “An Occasion of Sin is not to be missed.”—Small Press
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Long renowned as one of Ireland's greatest poets, John Montague, Ireland Professor of Poetry, displays his second gift, as a writer of fine short stories, in this superb collection. These nine stories extend from Northern Ireland to Dublin, and even, in the daring title story, to Mexico. They focus on such compelling and diverse themes as the conspiracy of sadism between schoolmaster and schoolchildren; the fantasy world of a lonely farm boy; political scheming in a city office; the struggles of a gifted artist in bohemian Dublin. "The Cry," an astonishingly prescient story, is one of the first to describe the beginnings of the Troubles, and "An Occasion of Sin," written in the voice of a young French woman confronting Irish attitudes towards sex, is a small masterpiece. But it is the title story which dazzles most of all. Anticipating magic realism, this tour de force describes the astonishing Bernard Corunna Coote and his Mexican campaign to establish that the Irish founded America! John Montague's Death of a Chieftain and Other Stories is undoubtedly one of the most important collections of short stories to emerge from an Irish writer in the twentieth century.
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The sixth edition of this major modern poetic sequence concludes with a revised and expanded section of notes by Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Since its publication in 1972, The Rough Field has been praised as the most significant attempt in poetry to understand Northern Ireland’s troubled history.
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(The poetic sequence of The Great Cloak, first published i...)
The poetic sequence of The Great Cloak, first published in 1978, recounts the loss of love and its recovery in a new and growing relationship.
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First published on the occasion of John Montague's 80th birthday, this revised edition of Chosen Lights, in which more than thirty fellow poets select one of his poems and present an essay outlining its claims on their affection and admiration, endures as a unique perspective on a master's work and as a remarkable sampler of each stage of his career. Sara Berkeley | Ciaran Berry | Eavan Boland Rosita Boland | Ciaran Carson | Michael Coady Gerald Dawe | Peter Fallon | Tom French Alan Gillis | Eamon Grennan | Vona Groarke Dermot Healy | Seamus Heaney | Thomas Kinsella Michael Longley | Seán Lysaght | Derek Mahon John McAuliffe | Medbh McGuckian | Frank McGuinness | Paul Muldoon | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | Conor O'Callaghan | Bernard O'Donoghue | Dennis O'Driscoll | Justin Quinn l Aidan Rooney Peter Sirr | Gerard Smyth | David Wheatley
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Montague, John Patrick was born on February 28, 1929 in New York City. Son of James Terence and Mary (Carney) Montague.
Bachelor, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 1949. Master of Arts, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 1953. Postgraduate, Yale University, 1954.
Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1955.
Film critic Standard, Dublin, Ireland, 1949-1952. Executive Bord Failte, 1956-1959. Paris correspondent Irish Times, 1961-1964.
Lecturer in poetry University College, University Dublin, 1972-1988. Writer-in-residence State University of New York, Albany, 1990. Visiting lecturer University California, Berkeley, 1964, 65, University Dublin, 1967, 68, University Vincennes, 1968.
(First published on the occasion of John Montague's 80th b...)
(Montague’s American readers who expect Mount Eagle to ret...)
(Long renowned as one of Ireland's greatest poets, John Mo...)
(The poetic sequence of The Great Cloak, first published i...)
(The sixth edition of this major modern poetic sequence co...)
( “Montague explores dark emotions and thoughts with wond...)
(Signed limited first edition of Montague's most famous book.)
(Book by Montague, John)
(That dark accomplice.--The new enamel bucket.--The Oklaho...)
(Poetry.)
Member Irish Academy Letters.
Married Madeleine de Brauer, October 18, 1956 (divorced 1972). Married Evelyn Robson. Children: Oonogh, Silylle.