John McAuliffe has published six books with The Gallery Press, most recently Selected Poems (2021), which was an Observer Book of the Year. The Kabul Olympics (2020) was a Guardian Poetry Book of the Month in June 2020 and a TLS and Irish Times 2020 Book of the Year. His versions of the Bosnian poet Igor Klikovac, Stockholm Syndrome (Smith Doorstop), was a Poetry Book Society Winter Pamphlet Choice in 2019, and his work as editor includes Carcanet's New Poetries VIII (2021) and Everything to Play For: 99 Poems About Sport (Poetry Ireland, 2015). 

 

John grew up in Listowel, Co.Kerry, studied English and Law in Galway and joined the University of Manchester in 2004, where he is now Professor of Poetry. He served on the Irish Arts Council 2013-2018, where he was Deputy Director and chaired the Council's Strategy work. He wrote a regular poetry column for The Irish Times 2013-2020. John is also Associate Publisher and Editor at the leading independent poetry press, Carcanet, and co-editor of the international journal PN Review, and is a trustee of Manchester's UNESCO City of Literature. 

 

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