John Montague (1) (1929–2016)

Author of The Book of Irish Verse : An Anthology of Irish Poetry from the Sixth Century to the Present

For other authors named John Montague, see the disambiguation page.

About the Author

John Montague was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 28, 1929. He was educated at University College Dublin and Yale University. He was a poet, writer, and translator. His works included Forms of Exile, Poisoned Lands, The Death of a Chieftain, A Chosen Light, Tides, A Slow Dance, The Great show more Cloak, The Rough Field, The Dead Kingdom, Mount Eagle, Border Sick Call, The Figure in the Cave, Smashing the Piano, Company, Drunken Sailor, Speech Lessons, and Second Childhood. He also edited The Faber Book of Irish Verse, which featured many of his translations. He helped found Claddagh Records, which publishes traditional artists and leading literary figures in Ireland. He died on December 10, 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Works by John Montague

Faber Book of Irish Verse (1974) 50 copies

The Rough Field (1972) 35 copies

Selected Poems (1982) 29 copies

Collected Poems (1995) 28 copies

The Dead Kingdom (1984) 21 copies

The Pear is Ripe: A Memoir (2007) 17 copies

Death of a Chieftain: & Other Stories (1978) 13 copies

Mount Eagle (1988) 12 copies

The Great Cloak (1978) 11 copies

New Collected Poems (2012) 10 copies

Bitter Harvest: An Anthology of Contemporary Irish Verse (1989) 10 copies

the figure in the cave (1989) 10 copies

Smashing the Piano (1999) 9 copies

A Spell to Bless the Silence: Selected Poems (2018) 8 copies

Drunken Sailor (2004) 8 copies

A Chosen Light (1967) 8 copies

Born in Brooklyn: John Montague's America (1991) 8 copies

A Slow Dance (1975) 7 copies

New Selected Poems (1989) 7 copies

A Love Present: & Other Stories (1997) 7 copies

A Ball of Fire : Collected Stories (2009) 7 copies

Tides (1970) 6 copies

About Love: Poems (1993) 6 copies

Speech Lessons (2011) 6 copies

Poisoned Lands (1977) 5 copies

Company (2001) 5 copies

Time in Armagh (Gallery books) (1993) 5 copies, 1 review

An Occasion of Sin (1991) 5 copies

Ireland - changes and challenges : short stories (2008) 4 copies

The Bag Apron, or, The Poet and His Community (1998) 4 copies

The Bag Apron - The Inaugural Lecture of the Ireland Chair of Poetry (2017) 3 copies

Second Childhood (2017) 2 copies

A fair house: Versions of Irish poetry (1972) 2 copies

Forms of exile (1958) 2 copies

Hill field : poems and memoirs for John Montague on his sixtieth birthday, 28 February 1989 (1989) 2 copies

In My Grandfather's Mansion (2010) 1 copy

Many Mansions 1 copy

A Tribute to Austin Clarke on His Seventieth Birthday, 9th May 1966 (1966) 1 copy

Border Sick Call. 1 copy

Lost Notebook (1987) 1 copy

A new siege (1970) 1 copy

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The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1970) — Contributor — 224 copies

The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories (1981) — Contributor — 150 copies, 1 review

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Legal name: Montague, John Patrick
Birthdate: 1929-02-28 [1928]
Date of death: 2016-12-10
Gender: male
Education: University College Dublin
Yale University
St. Patrick's College, Armagh, Ireland
Occupations: poet
memoirist
Awards and honors: Marten Toonder Award
Professor of Poetry for Ireland
Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize (2000)
Relationships: Wassell, Elizabeth (wife)
Nationality: Ireland
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Places of residence: Garvaghey, County Tyrone, Ireland
Iowa, USA
Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Place of death: Nice, France

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wanderlustlover 1,424 reviews

Time in Armagh (Gallery books) by John Montague

A very good look into the Ireland's ecclesiastical war through the eyes a child (or even many merge children) we can see the struggle for life, death, survival and especially love in the most unexpected places. Not a favorite, but I did find it gripping and would not mind reading more of his works.

Dec 26, 2022

oldman 172 reviews

The book of Irish verse: An anthology of Irish poetry from the sixth century to the present by John Montague