Desmond Egan
15 July 1936 -
Poet and publisher Desmond Egan was born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, and lives near Droichead Nua/Newbridge, Co. Kildare. Selections from his poetry have been translated into Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Italian, Bulgarian, French and Greek, among other languages. In 1972, he founded The Goldsmith Press. His awards include the 1983 National Poetry Foundation of USA Award for his Collected Poems and an iBAM (Chigago) Award for Literature in 2015. To date, he has published 23 collections of poetry, two of prose and two translations of Greek plays.