Matthew Sweeney
Born in Lifford, Co. Donegal in 1952, he has lived principally in London since 1973. His poetry collections include A Dream of Maps (1981), A Round House (1983), The Lame Waltzer (1985), Blue Shoes (1989), Cacti (1992), The Bridal Suite (1997) and A Smell of Fish (2000). He has written several collections of poetry for children - including The Flying Spring Onion (1992), Fatso in the Red Suit (1995) and Up On The Roof: New & Selected Poems (2001) - as well as children's fiction. Writing Poetry, which he co-wrote with John Hartley Williams, appeared in 1997, and he has co-edited two anthologies of poems. He has held several fellowships and writer-in-residence positions. He won the Prudence Farmer Prize in 1984, the Cholmondely Award in 1999, a Henfield Writing Fellowship in 1986, and several bursaries from the Arts Councils of Ireland and England.
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