Collected Poems: Greg Delanty 1986–2006

Seven poetry collections, including 15 previously unpublished poems, are brought together in this single volume, revealing Greg Delanty's resourcefulness and engaging wit. He explores common experiencesfamily life, love, friendship, the natural world, and the political worldin unexpected ways, offering the combination of a lyrical Irish voice with a keen outsider's sense of the United States. Using a sequence of metaphors, the poems evoke the subtle interconnections of people and places, past and future.

Greg Delanty is an instructor at St. Michael's College in Vermont and the author of American Wake, Cast in the Fire, The Hellbox, and Southward. He was awarded the Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry award in 1996 and won the National Poetry Competition in 1999. He lives in Vermont.