Moya Cannon

Moya Cannon is an Irish poet with five published collections, the most recent being Keats Lives (Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2015).

Born in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal, Cannon studied history and politics at University College Dublin and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from which she went on to teach traveller children at a special school in Galway.

Her first published collection 'Oar' (Salmon Poetry, Bridge Mills, Galway 1990, reprinted 1994) won the 1991 Brendan Behan Memorial Award.

Cannon has given readings with musicians and singers, among them the harper Kathleen Loughnane, the traditional singers Maighrėad and Triona Ní Dhomhnaill, and the RTE Con Tempo String Quartet.

Moya has been invited to read in Ireland; Europe; in the Americas, North and South; in Japan and India. Bilingual selections of her work have been published in Spanish, Portuguese, and German. She has also been honoured with the O'Shaughnessy Award, and was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2011. She has been editor of Poetry Ireland Review and is a member of Aosdána[1]