Tony Kitt

Poet

Dublin
Ireland
IE

Author's Bio

Tony Kitt lives in Dublin, Ireland. His family hails from County Mayo in the West of Ireland, as well as from Tuscany, Greece, and Poland. He has a background in biology, Celtic studies, and classical music, and has worked as a researcher, a journalist, and a creative writing tutor.

His poems also appear in such magazines as Oxford Poetry, The North, Plume, Poetry Ireland Review, The Prague Revue, Cyphers, Under the Radar, The American Journal of Poetry, Stride, etc., as well as in a number of anthologies. They have also been translated into Italian, Romanian, and Ukrainian. He edited the anthology entitled Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (SurVision Books, 2022).

Tony Kitt performed at many festivals across Europe, e.g. in the UK (Manchester, Exeter, Glasgow, Belfast), Germany (Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich), France (Paris), Belgium (Ghent, Liege), Finland (Helsinki, Turku, Lahti), Italy (Rome, Naples, Tuscany), Switzerland (Lausanne, Morges), Croatia (Zagreb, Zadar), Macedonia (Struga), Slovenia (Vilenica), Romania (Craiova, Targu Jiu), Montenegro (Podgorica), Ukraine (Donetsk), and in many Irish towns and cities.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Endurable Infinity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
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Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (edited by) (SurVision Books, 2022)
Chapbook:
The Magic Phlute (SurVision Books, 2019)
Prizes won: 

Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize 2003

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Raised in: 
Dublin
Ireland
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Last update: Jul 24, 2023