Carcanet Press Poetry Publisher

Greg Delanty was born in Cork, Ireland in 1958, and now lives for most of the year in America, where he teaches at St Michael's College, Vermont. His earlier books include Cast in the Fire (1986), Southward (1992), American Wake (1995) and - available from OxfordPoets - The Hellbox (1998). He was awarded the Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry award in 1996 and won the National Poetry Competition in 1999.

‘…There is real originality of technique controlling the strong emotional currents [in his poems].’ - James McAuley, Poetry Ireland Review

‘…Fascinatingly intimate, open and unashamedly domestic.’ - Colin Graham, The Irish Times

‘Like Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, Delanty regards himself as a poet of the hearth…illuminating greater truths about the world and the politics of living through the ties that bind us.’ - Kathryn Gray, Times Literary Supplement

‘…Delanty writes poems that are wordily appealing in the way that Hopkins and late Auden appeal.’ - Times Literary Supplement

‘The Blind Stitch is a tour de force.’ - The Irish Examiner

‘These poems seem entirely right.’ - South China (Hong Kong) Morning Post

'A heady mix of different registers of language...All in all a drum roll is in order.' - Matthew Sweeney, The Observer.