Harry Clifton
Born in Dublin in 1952, he has travelled extensively in Africa, Asia and Europe. His five collections of poetry, all published by the Gallery Press, are The Walls of Carthage (1977), Office of the Salt Merchant (1979), Comparative Lives (1982), The Liberal Cage (1988), and Night Train through the Brenner (1996). The Desert Route: Selected Poems 1973-1988 appeared in 1992. His chronicle of a year in the Abruzzo Mountains, On the Spine of Italy, was published in 1999, and his stories are collected as Berkeley's Telephone and Other Fictions (2000). He is a recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry.
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