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'''Kevin Kiely''' (born 2 June 1953) is a poet, novelist, critic and playwright whose writings and public statements have met with controversy. '''Kevin Kiely''' (born 2 June 1953) is a poet, critic, author and playwright whose writings and public statements have met with controversy and also with support.


==Early life== ==Early life==
Kiely was born on 2 June 1953 in ], ], ]. His grandfather's brother was the ] ], inventor of the hammer for Slazenger America as used in the Olympic Games, and three-time record-breaking gold medallist.<ref name="test">John Flanagan: Obituary in ''New York Times'', June 5, 1938</ref> Kiely's childhood was spent in many parts of Ireland due to his father's work with the ]. Aged 7, he was sent to ] to his aunt. In 1963 on the death of his father, John Francis Kiely, he was sent by his guardian and uncle, Edward Vaughan-Neil, to Mt St. Joseph's Abbey, Roscrea where he was a boarder from 1966–1969. He completed his education in ], Dublin, from 1969–1971. Kiely was born on 2 June 1953 in ], ], ]. His grandfather's brother was the ] ], inventor of the hammer for Slazenger America as used in the Olympic Games, and three-times record-breaking gold medallist.<ref name="test">John Flanagan: Obituary in ''New York Times'', June 5, 1938</ref> Kiely's childhood was spent in many parts of Ireland, due to his father's work as manager with the ]. Aged 7, he was sent to ] to his aunt. In 1963 on the death of his father, John Francis Kiely, he was in the care of his guardian and uncle, Edward Vaughan-Neil who sent him to Mt St. Joseph’s Abbey, Roscrea where he was a boarder from 1966 to 1969. He completed his education in ], Dublin, from 1969 to 1971.


==Wandering, work, academic life== ==Wandering, work, academic life==
He became a field study technician for Smedley HP in Cambridgeshire 1973–1975 and wandered in Europe working part-time at various jobs while reading in the national libraries of many countries, but otherwise mainly residing in Paris and London. Kiely attended ] in 1976, participating on the Art Council-funded National Writers Workshop, and was made an honorary fellow of ] in 1983. He holds a Masters in Literature from ] in 2005 and a PhD from ] in 2009. His doctoral thesis on ''John L. Sweeney:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucd.ie/archives/html/collections/sweeney-jack&maire.htm |title=Jack & Maire Sweeney |publisher=Ucd.ie |date=1988-12-01 |accessdate=2014-08-08}}</ref> Patron of Poetry'' at ]'s ] gained him an American ] in 2007, enabling years of full-time lecturing at American universities including ] and ], and research at Harvard. He became a field study technician for Smedley HP in Cambridgeshire 1973–1975 and wandered in Europe working part-time at various jobs while reading in the national libraries of many countries, but otherwise mainly residing in Paris and London. Kiely attended ] in 1976, participating on the Art Council-funded National Writers Workshop, taught Literature in Colegio Xaloc, Barcelona and was made an honorary fellow of ] in 1983. He holds a Masters in Literature from ] in 2005 and a PhD from ] in 2009. His doctoral thesis on ''John L. Sweeney: Patron of Poetry''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucd.ie/archives/html/collections/sweeney-jack&maire.htm |title=Jack & Maire Sweeney |publisher=Ucd.ie |date=1988-12-01 |accessdate=2014-08-08}}</ref> at ] ] gained him an American ] in 2007, enabling years of full-time lecturing at American universities including ] and the ], and research at Harvard. The doctoral thesis<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=John Lincoln Sweeney: patron to poets at the Edward Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (1942-1969). |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/939710227 |publisher=University College Dublin |date=2011 |place=Dublin |language=en |first=Kevin |last=Kiely|oclc=939710227 }}</ref> formed the basis of an A-Z critical study of modernist American poets associated with The Edward Woodberry Poetry Room ]. Sweeney as Irish-American millionaire and patron, greatly contributed in terms of patronage to poets E. E. Cummings , Robert Frost,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kiely |first=Kevin |date=2019 |title=Robert Frost in Ireland: John L. Sweeney and Frost, Patronage, and the Poet as Public Ambassador |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26870315 |journal=The Robert Frost Review |issue=29 |pages=18–29 |jstor=26870315 |issn=1062-6999}}</ref> Ezra Pound,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kevin Kiely - Page 3 |url=https://makeitnew.ezrapoundsociety.org/en/volume-iii/3-1-june-2016/book-in-focus-ezra-pound-poet?start=2 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=makeitnew.ezrapoundsociety.org}}</ref> Wallace Stevens and many others which Kiely prefigured in various essays discussing poets and their patrons before the publication of ''Harvard's Patron: Jack of All Poets'' (2018).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kiely |first=Kevin |date=2013 |title=Cummings, Sweeney, and the Controversy over "Thanksgiving (1956)" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43915446 |journal=Spring |issue=20 |pages=71–81 |jstor=43915446 |issn=0735-6889}}</ref>


==Writings== ==Writings==
Kiely co-edited ''The Belle'', a counter-cultural magazine with ] from 1978–1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dublincity.ie/libcat/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=&searchTerm2=&searchTerm3=&searchTerm4=&searchType=&Page=1&media=&branch=&authority=&language=&junior=&rcn=X000410071&fr=tl |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130629103233/http://www.dublincity.ie/libcat/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=&searchTerm2=&searchTerm3=&searchTerm4=&searchType=&Page=1&media=&branch=&authority=&language=&junior=&rcn=X000410071&fr=tl |dead-url=yes |archive-date=2013-06-29 |title=Title Information, The belle, a quarterly journal of belles-lettres, Kevin Kiely, editor, contributions by Anthony Cronin et al |publisher=Dublincity.ie |date= |accessdate=2014-08-08 }}</ref> He moved from Dublin to Spain where he taught at Colegio Xaloc and gave public lectures on poetry and literature. Kiely co-edited ''The Belle'', a counter-cultural magazine, with ] from 1978 to 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dublincity.ie/libcat/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=&searchTerm2=&searchTerm3=&searchTerm4=&searchType=&Page=1&media=&branch=&authority=&language=&junior=&rcn=X000410071&fr=tl |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629103233/http://www.dublincity.ie/libcat/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=&searchTerm2=&searchTerm3=&searchTerm4=&searchType=&Page=1&media=&branch=&authority=&language=&junior=&rcn=X000410071&fr=tl |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-06-29 |title=Title Information, The belle, a quarterly journal of belles-lettres, Kevin Kiely, editor, contributions by Anthony Cronin et al |publisher=Dublincity.ie |accessdate=2014-08-08 }}</ref> He moved from Dublin to Spain where he taught at Colegio Xaloc and gave public lectures on poetry and literature.


''Quintesse'', published in 1982 in Dublin by Co-Op Books, found a New York publisher in 1985. During this period he was invited to the University of Iowa on the International Writing Programme Fellowship working with the American poet ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robertbly.com/r_e_paulengle.html |title=Essays by Robert Bly |publisher=Robertbly.com |date= |accessdate=2014-08-08}}</ref> as well as poets ], ] and ]. ''Mere Mortals'', an experimental pastiche of the post-Joycean novel, was published in 1989 in Dublin. ''Quintesse'', published in 1982 in Dublin by Co-Op Books, found a New York publisher in 1985. During this period he was invited to the University of Iowa on the International Writing Programme Fellowship working with the American poet ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robertbly.com/r_e_paulengle.html |title=Essays by Robert Bly |publisher=Robertbly.com |date= |accessdate=2014-08-08}}</ref> as well as poets ], ] and ]. ''Mere Mortals'', an experimental pastiche of the post-Joycean novel, was published in 1989 in Dublin.


With the publication of the biography of ], a ] sympathizer and collaborator, Kiely wandered into controversy. The book titled ''Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast'' came out in Ireland and America, and Kiely's stance was seen by some as "diplomatic"<ref>Murphy, John L. "Francis Stuart", Études irlandaises, 35-1, 2010</ref> or even as an attempt to partly ] Stuart, whereas some others suggested that Kiely was "not writing the book that more opinionated readers, eager to prove Stuart's lapses, would have demanded."<ref>Murphy, Richard T. New Hibernia Review Volume 12, Number 3, Fómhar/Autumn 2008 pp. 158-160.</ref> With publication of the biography of ] author of the Penguin Classic one of twenty-five novels, Kiely found support and condemnation because of Stuart’s conflicted life including the Second World War era in Berlin broadcasting at ] which had earned him the scandalous epithet the Irish ]. While the book was extensively reviewed, the long existing controversy over Stuart became amplified into further controversy. The book titled ''Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast'' came out in Ireland and America, and Kiely's stance was seen by some as "diplomatic"<ref>Murphy, John L. "Francis Stuart", Études irlandaises, 35-1, 2010</ref> whereas some others suggested that Kiely was "not writing the book that more opinionated readers, eager to prove Stuart's lapses, would have demanded."<ref>Murphy, Richard T. New Hibernia Review Volume 12, Number 3, Fómhar/Autumn 2008 pp. 158-160.</ref> The re-issue of the revised edition of the Stuart biography in 2017 alongside Geoffrey Elliott's biography of John Lodwick brought to public attention the Stuart-Lodwick association of writers who took different sides in WWII and thereafter formed an ideological friendship.<ref>{{cite web |title=Adventurers in Immortality and Nazism |date=29 January 2018 |url=https://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2018/01 |publisher=}}</ref>


Kiely's poetry such as the collection ''Breakfast with Sylvia'', published in 2005 was highly praised in America and Ireland by leading poets.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} ‘Kiely has a reputation as strong in Europe and the US as it is here'.<ref>McAuley, James J. “Wit, Laments and Bodhrán Satire,” Irish Times, 16 July 2005.</ref> Kiely's poetry such as the collection ''Breakfast with Sylvia'', published in 2005 received the Kavanagh Fellowship in 2006, was highly praised in America and Ireland by leading poets, ‘Kiely has a reputation as strong in Europe and the US as it is here'.<ref>McAuley, James J. “Wit, Laments and Bodhrán Satire,” Irish Times, 16 July 2005.</ref> The portrait of Kevin Kiely by Maeve McCarthy RHA gained the Ireland-US Council Portrait Award in 2006.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Coulter |first=Riann |date=Summer 2006 |title='Reclaiming portraiture' |url=https://www.irishartsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/issues/i25503372/25503384.pdf |journal=Irish Arts Review |pages=61–2}}</ref>


Besides book publication and work in anthologies his poetry has appeared in ''The Edinburgh Review'', ''Poetry Ireland Review'', ''Adrift'' (New York), ''Foolscap'' (London), ''Oasis'' (London), ''Acumen'' (UK), ''Other Poetry'' (UK), ''Cyphers'', ''The Literary Review'' (New Jersey), ''Chapman'' (Scotland), ''Southword'', ''Cork Literary Review'', ''The Black Mountain Review'', ''The Shop'', ''Fortnight'', ''Storm'' (Scotland), ''Touchstone'' (UK), ''Stony Thursday Book'', ''Idaho Arts Quarterly'', ''The Journal: Cumbria'' (UK), ''Decanto'' (UK), ''The Poetry Bus'', ''The Sunday Independent'', and ''Revival Literary Journal''. Besides book publication and work in many anthologies, his poetry has appeared in ''The Edinburgh Review'', ''Poetry Ireland Review'', ''Adrift'' (New York), ''Foolscap'' (London), ''Oasis'' (London), ''Acumen'' (UK), ''Other Poetry'' (UK), ''Cyphers'', ''The Literary Review'' (New Jersey), ''Chapman'' (Scotland), ''Southword'', ''Cork Literary Review'', ''The Black Mountain Review'', ''The Shop'', ''Fortnight'', ''Storm'' (Scotland), ''Touchstone'' (UK), ''Stony Thursday Book'', ''Idaho Arts Quarterly'', ''The Journal: Cumbria'' (UK), ''Decanto'' (UK), ''The Poetry Bus'', ''The Sunday Independent'', ''Revival Literary Journal, Red Poetry (Wales), Irish American Post, The Minetta Review (New York), Wild Violet Magazine, Pinched (London), Underground Press, (New York), SPRING: the journal of the ee cummings society, The Laughing Dog (US), ANU/A New Ulster 38, New Poetry International, Café Review (USA), Village: politics and culture, Pratik.''


Kiely's plays, ''Multiple Indiscretions'' (1997) and ''Children of No Importance'' (2000), have been produced by RTÉ. He is also a successful novelist for young readers. ''A Horse Called El Dorado'' won the CBI Bisto Award in 2006. ''SOS Lusitania'' (2013) is a novel about war, politics and conspiracy theory. His most recent adult fiction is ''The Welkinn Complex'', which exposes psychiatric practice and the pharmaceutical industry. Kiely's plays, ''Multiple Indiscretions'' (1997) and ''Children of No Importance'' (2000), have been produced by RTÉ as well as "In This Supreme Hour" at the Derry Playhouse in 2016. He is also a successful novelist for young readers. ''A Horse Called El Dorado'' won the CBI Bisto Award in 2006.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Bisto plot thickens |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/bisto-plot-thickens-1.1008959 |access-date=2022-03-24 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref> ''SOS Lusitania'' (2013) is a novel about war, politics and conspiracy theory and was the One Book One Community Choice in the Centenary Year of the Lusitania for 2015 during ''The Remember the Lusitania Project''. His most recent adult fiction is ''The Welkinn Complex'', which exposes psychiatric practice and the pharmaceutical industry, while ''UCD Belfield Metaphysical: a retrospective'' is a collection of poems published in 2017.


Kiely received Arts Council Literature Bursary Awards for his writings in 1980, 1989, 1990, 1998, 1999, and 2004. Kiely received Arts Council Literature Bursary Awards for his writings in 1980, 1989, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2004, A Bisto Award in 2005 and The Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry 2006.


==Criticism== ==Criticism==
Kiely had begun reviewing poetry and literature, first with ]'s ''Hibernia'', and later for various publications<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lcm.unige.it/ricerca/pub/15/21.pdf|format=PDF|title=THE POET UNMASKED IN THE PISAN CANTOS|author=Kevin Kiely|website=Lcm.unige.it|accessdate=2017-08-20}}</ref> including ''The Examiner'' and ''Books Ireland''. He became New Writing Editor and later Literary Editor (2000–2005) on ''Books Ireland'' at the invitation of its founder, Jeremy Cecil Addis, in 1995. He writes extensive and controversial criticism in ''Hibernia'', ''Irish Examiner'', ''The Democrat Arts Page'', ''Irish Studies Review'', ''Honest Ulsterman'', Fortnight, ''Books Ireland'', ''The London Magazine'', ''The Irish Book Review'', ''Poetry Ireland Review'', ''Irish Times'', ''Irish Arts Review'', ''Irish Literary Review'', and ''Idaho Arts Quarterly''. Kiely had begun reviewing poetry and literature, first with ]'s ''Hibernia'', and later for various publications<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lcm.unige.it/ricerca/pub/15/21.pdf|title=The Poet Unmasked in the Pisan Cantos|author=Kevin Kiely|website=Lcm.unige.it|accessdate=2017-08-20}}</ref> including ''The Examiner'' and ''Books Ireland''. He became New Writing Editor and later Literary Editor (2000–2005) on ''Books Ireland'' at the invitation of its founder, Jeremy Cecil Addis, in 1995. He writes extensive and controversial criticism in ''Hibernia'', ''Irish Examiner'', ''The Democrat Arts Page'', ''Irish Studies Review'', ''Honest Ulsterman'', Fortnight, ''Books Ireland'', ''The London Magazine'', ''The Irish Book Review'', ''Poetry Ireland Review'', ''Irish Times'', ''Irish Arts Review'', ''Irish Literary Review'', ''Idaho Arts Quarterly, Humanities'' (DC), ''Village Magazine: politics and culture'', ''The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society'', ''The Wallace Stevens Journal'', ''The Robert Frost Review'' and ''MAKE IT NEW''.


Kiely's poetry criticism<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/503143|title="I Hope I Haven't Made Another Lampshade": Stevens and John L. Sweeney|first1=Kevin|last1=Kiely|first2=Lee M.|last2=Jenkins|date=27 March 2013|journal=Wallace Stevens Journal|volume=37|issue=1|pages=91–98|via=Project MUSE|doi=10.1353/wsj.2013.0013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://poetryireland.ie/resources/feature-articles/A_Paradise_of_MFA.html |title=Poetry Ireland &#124; Resources &#124; Feature Articles |publisher=Poetryireland.ie |date= |accessdate=2014-08-08}}</ref> is not just confined to homegrown Irish publishing which he has extensively commented on in many reviews and surveys.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/books-digging-for-the-real-worth-of-seamus-heaney-30721902.html|title=Books: Digging for the real worth of Seamus Heaney |website=Independent.ie|accessdate=2017-08-20}}</ref> He questioned the pervasively state-funded poetry scene amidst the arts in general "amidst cliques and cabals", and made public the lack of accountability of many arts institutions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2015/03/our-top-heavy-arts-council/|title=Our top-heavy Arts Council.|date=6 March 2015|publisher=}}</ref> He launched vociferous and persistent criticism of institutions such as ], which he feels are anathema to the identity and autonomy of the serious artist. His statements about the Arts Council's Aosdána reflect the wider concern along with other artists such as Robert Ballagh in relation to public funding channels devoid of accountability.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2014/02/aos-dana/|title=Aos Dana|date=1 February 2014|publisher=}}</ref> Kiely's poetry criticism<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/503143|title="I Hope I Haven't Made Another Lampshade": Stevens and John L. Sweeney|first1=Kevin|last1=Kiely|first2=Lee M.|last2=Jenkins|date=27 March 2013|journal=The Wallace Stevens Journal|volume=37|issue=1|pages=91–98|via=Project MUSE|doi=10.1353/wsj.2013.0013|s2cid=170951737 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://poetryireland.ie/resources/feature-articles/A_Paradise_of_MFA.html |title=Poetry Ireland &#124; Resources &#124; Feature Articles |publisher=Poetryireland.ie |date= |accessdate=2014-08-08}}</ref> is not just confined to homegrown Irish publishing which he has extensively commented on in many reviews and surveys.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/books-digging-for-the-real-worth-of-seamus-heaney-30721902.html|title=Books: Digging for the real worth of Seamus Heaney |website=Independent.ie|date=9 November 2014 |accessdate=2017-08-20}}</ref> He questioned the pervasively state-funded poetry scene amidst the arts in general "amidst cliques and cabals", and made public the lack of accountability of many arts institutions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2015/03/our-top-heavy-arts-council/|title=Our top-heavy Arts Council.|date=6 March 2015|publisher=|access-date=24 February 2017|archive-date=25 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225051446/https://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2015/03/our-top-heavy-arts-council/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He launched vociferous and persistent criticism of institutions such as ], which he feels are anathema to the identity and autonomy of the serious artist. His statements about the Arts Council's Aosdána reflect the wider concern along with other artists such as Robert Ballagh in relation to public funding channels devoid of accountability.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2014/02/aos-dana/|title=Aos Dana|date=1 February 2014|publisher=}}</ref>


His another statement reached national news when he reviewed President ]' ''Selected Poems'' in 2012 calling his poems "‘crime against literature'".<ref>{{cite web|author=John Spain Books Editor |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books-arts/critic-says-presidents-poems-are-a-crime-against-literature-26820111.html |title=Critic says President's poems are a ‘crime against literature' |website=Independent.ie |date= |accessdate=2014-08-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/kiely-rebukes-criticism-of-his-essay-on-higgins-book-26823013.html |title=Kiely rebukes criticism of his essay on Higgins's book |website=Independent.ie |date=2012-02-19 |accessdate=2014-08-08}}</ref> Irish poet ], quoted by The Irish Central, defended Michael D. Higgins, who, in his view, "has an absolute commitment to the spirit of poetry." Durcan also said that "Kiely had no competence to talk or write about poetry at any level. All of us in the poetic community know that. Since the 1980s he has been writing rubbish about poetry.”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/irelands-leading-poet-paul-durkin-slams-president-michael-d-higgins-writings-139386633-237430861|title=Ireland’s leading poet Paul Durcan slams President Michael D Higgins writings|date=15 February 2012|publisher=}}</ref> His literary criticism reached national news when he reviewed President ]' ''Selected Poems'' in 2012 calling his poems "crimes against literature".<ref>{{cite web|author=John Spain |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books-arts/critic-says-presidents-poems-are-a-crime-against-literature-26820111.html |title=Critic says President's poems a 'crime against literature' |website=Independent.ie |date= 10 February 2012|accessdate=2014-08-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/kiely-rebukes-criticism-of-his-essay-on-higgins-book-26823013.html |title=Kiely rebukes criticism of his essay on Higgins's book |website=Independent.ie |date=2012-02-19 |accessdate=2014-08-08}}</ref> ], quoted by The Irish Central, defended Michael D. Higgins, who, in his view, "has an absolute commitment to the spirit of poetry." Kiely responded through the ] "In supporting the poetry of President Higgins, the Aosdana group prove that their own critical faculty and writing is of the same standard".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kiely rebukes criticism of his essay on Higgins's book |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/kiely-rebukes-criticism-of-his-essay-on-higginss-book-26823013.html |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=independent |date=19 February 2012 |language=en}}</ref> Kiely's recent works in criticism, ''Harvard's Patron Jack of all Poets'', about the Woodberry Poetry Room, and critical exegesis ''Seamus Heaney and the Great Poetry Hoax'', prompted the American poet ]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Carlo Parcelli {{!}} National Beat Poetry Foundation |url=https://nationalbeatpoetryfoundation.org/index.php/carlo-parcelli/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |language=en-US}}</ref> to comment 'Kiely has unmasked a fraud that as he predicted years ago has burgeoned into an institutional conspiracy to honour the mediocre and the sham.'<ref>{{cite web|url=https://villagemagazine.ie/index.index.php/2018/6 |title=Shame us, Seamus | publisher=}}</ref>


The publication of ''Arts Council Immortals'' albeit the unofficial biography of the Arts Council 1951-2020 was praised by independent underground arts practitioners, writers and poets but has also involved legal action behind the scenes and unease among establishment commentators including John Burns who found it 'makes Finnegans Wake look like a Ladybird book'<ref>{{cite web |last=Burns |first=John |date=2020-02-16 |title=Atticus: President Michael D Higgins gifts book of rude poems to library |url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/ |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170402233443/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/ |archive-date=2 April 2017 |access-date=July 11, 2020 |website=www.thetimes.co.uk }}</ref>
==Interviews==

⚫ * 'Poet Kevin Kiely on poetry and politics' interview by Gretchen Jude; ] January 2, 2008.
==Epic poetry==
⚫ * The Arbiteronline Podcast Interview with Kevin Kiely by Arbiter Editor, Dustin Leprey; ] February 21, 2008.
⚫ * 'Want to put your feelings into words'; Chad Dryden talked to Kevin Kiely; Kevin Kiely's Journey East, serialized in The Arbiter commencing January 21, 2008.
In 2011, Kiely began cross-community workshops and talks in Northern Ireland, sporadically based in Derry with the ''Eden Place Arts Centre'' and with Pauline Ross’s ''Playhouse Theatre'' which resulted in various writers' groups anthologies. Ten years contact with Ireland’s conflicted peace process region, resulted in the two volumes of ''Yrland Regained: Central Cantos''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kiely |first=Kevin |title="Yrland Regained: Central Cantos" I & II |publisher=Areopagitica Publishing |year=2022 |isbn=979-8662833913 |url=https://www.amazon.com/YRLAND-REGAINED-CENTRAL-CANTOS-II/dp/B08Q9WF2KC?asin=B08Q9WF2KC&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1 |pages=1-45 (available) https://www.amazon.com/YRLAND-REGAINED-CENTRAL-CANTOS-II |language=en}}</ref> ‘structured’ within American modernist poetry techniques which evokes the Six Counties Sectarian War (1966-1998) and Ireland’s centuries struggle towards full independence and unity. In 2021 he was invited as editorial adviser/proofreader on Pamela Mary Brown’s ''Questions of Legacy'' and progressed to their co-writing poetry for the short film ''‘O City, City’'' a heritage commission by the Derry City and Strabane District Council.<ref>{{Citation |title=Introduction to History & Heritage of Derry's Walls | date=30 November 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ4NVOvZK4g |language=en |access-date=2022-03-24}}</ref>
⚫ * Kevin Kiely "House of Figs"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETjvPsZJcVM |title=Kevin Kiely "House of Figs" |publisher=YouTube |date=2010-09-18 |accessdate=2014-08-08}}</ref>
⚫ * Kevin Kiely "Belfield Metaphysical"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl0RwQTy0GU |title=Kevin Kiely 'Belfield Metaphysical' |publisher=YouTube |date=2010-09-25 |accessdate=2014-08-08}}</ref>
⚫ * Kevin Kiely interview with Alok Mishra for Ashvamegh Journal <ref>{{cite web|url=http://ashvamegh.net/kevin-kiely-poet-interview/ |title=Kevin Kiely Author and Poet Interview by Alok Mishra |publisher=Ashvamegh Journal |date=2015 }}</ref>


==Published works== ==Published works==
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* ''Plainchant for a Sundering'' (long-poem) Lapwing, Belfast 2001 * ''Plainchant for a Sundering'' (long-poem) Lapwing, Belfast 2001
* ''A Horse Called El Dorado'', O'Brien Press, Dublin 2005 (Bisto Honour Award, 2006) * ''A Horse Called El Dorado'', O'Brien Press, Dublin 2005 (Bisto Honour Award, 2006)
* ''Breakfast with Sylvia Lagan'', Belfast 2005/US Edition 2007; Awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry 2006 * ''Breakfast with Sylvia'', Lagan Press, Belfast 2005/US Edition 2007; Awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry 2006
* ''Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast'', Liffey Press, Dublin 2007, Dufour, PA 2008 (Authorised Biography) * ''Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast'', Liffey Press, Dublin 2007, Areopagitica Publishing 2017 (Authorised Biography)
* ''Something Sensational To Read in the Train'' (anthology foreword: Brendan Kennelly) Lemon Soap Press, Dublin 2005 * ''Something Sensational To Read in the Train'' (anthology foreword: Brendan Kennelly) Lemon Soap Press, Dublin 2005
* ''Catullus: One Man of Verona Anthology'', ed. Ronan Sheehan Farmar & Farmar Ltd 2010 * ''Catullus: One Man of Verona Anthology'', ed. Ronan Sheehan Farmar & Farmar Ltd 2010
* ''The Welkinn Complex Number One Son Publishing Co.'', Florida USA 2011 * ''The Welkinn Complex Number One Son Publishing Co.'', Florida USA 2011; Areopagitica Publishing (Revised Edition) 2016
* ''Ends & Beginnings: Anthology'' eds. John Gery and William Pratt AMS Press Inc, New York 2011 Windows Anthology eds. Heather Brett and Noel Monahan 2012 * ''Ends & Beginnings: Anthology'' eds. John Gery and William Pratt AMS Press Inc, New York 2011 Windows Anthology eds. Heather Brett and Noel Monahan 2012
* ''In Place of Love and Country'' eds. Richard Parker & John Gery Crater Press, London 2013 * ''In Place of Love and Country'' eds. Richard Parker & John Gery Crater Press, London 2013
* ''SOS Lusitania'', O'Brien Press, Dublin 2013 * ''SOS Lusitania'', O'Brien Press, Dublin 2013
* ''The Taking of Christ'' (co-authored with Pamela Mary Brown) 2013 * ''The Taking of Christ'' (co-authored with Pamela Mary Brown) 2013
* ''1916-2016 An Anthology of Reactions'' eds. John Liddy & Dominic Taylor The Limerick Writers' Centre, 2016
* ''UCD Belfield Metaphysical: a retrospective '', Lapwing Press, Belfast 2017
* ''The Office on Serious Street'', ''Writers Room Anthology'', Eden Place Arts Centre, Derry 2017
* ''Seamus Heaney and the Great Poetry Hoax '' Areopagitica, 2018
* ''Harvard’s Patron: Jack of All Poets '' Areopagitica, 2018
* ''UCD Belfield Metaphysical: New & Selected Poems'' Areopagitica, 2018
* ''Dracula and Luna'' (co-authored with Pamela Mary Brown) Areopagitica 2018
* ''Cromwell Milton Collins Carson'' from "Yrland Regained: Central Cantos" Cyberwit, Allahabad, India 2020
* ''Endgames: Good Friday Agreement & Missus Windsor's Hitmen Cantos'' Cyberwit, Allahabad, India 2020
* ''Arts Council Immortals'' Areopagitica 2020
* ''I shot the President's verse: Selected Journalism'' Areopagitica 2021
* ''Yrland Regained: Central Cantos'' I & II Areopagitica 2022
* ''Hotel Baudelaire: reservations and cancellations'' Areopagitica 2022
* ''The Candle of Vision A.E. (George William Russell) Introduction by Kevin Kiely'' Spa Cottage Publishing, 2022
* ''The Irish Percy French Introduction by Kevin Kiely'' Spa Cottage Publishing, 2022
* ''Secret Lives: Selected Poems and Prose of Susan Langstaff Mitchell Introduction by Kevin Kiely'' Spa Cottage Publishing, 2022
* ''The Selected Poems of Jane Elgee-Wilde Introduction by Kevin Kiely'' Spa Cottage Publishing, 2022
* ''Thomas Moore: Political Poems Introduction by Kevin Kiely'' Spa Cottage Publishing, 2024
* ''The Principles of Poetry DI + ID = Ψ Psi'' Spa Cottage Publishing, 2024


==Further reading== ==Further reading==
* Kiely, Kevin "Aos Dána: where self-selection meets self-praise, in a faux Gaelic, Haugheyesque arts beano", '']'', February–March 2014. * Kiely, Kevin "Aos Dána: where self-selection meets self-praise, in a faux Gaelic, Haugheyesque arts beano", '']'', February–March 2014.
* Kiely, Kevin "Kevin Kiely puts the boot into Seamus Heaney", '']'', August 2014.
* Kiely, Kevin "Enduring Irish Sculpture", '']'', September 2014.
* Kiely, Kevin "our top-heavy Arts Council", '']'', March 2015.
* Kiely, Kevin "Failing again to find Caravaggio", '']'', July 2015.
* Kiely, Kevin "Canon and on and on", '']'', September 2015.
* Parcelli, Carlo "Shame us, Séamus or at least say something genuine", '']'', June 2018.


==References== ==References==
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British writer
Kevin Kiely
Born (1953-06-02) 2 June 1953 (age 71)
Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland
OccupationPoet, novelist, critic, playwright

Kevin Kiely (born 2 June 1953) is a poet, critic, author and playwright whose writings and public statements have met with controversy and also with support.

Early life

Kiely was born on 2 June 1953 in Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland. His grandfather's brother was the Olympian John Jesus Flanagan, inventor of the hammer for Slazenger America as used in the Olympic Games, and three-times record-breaking gold medallist. Kiely's childhood was spent in many parts of Ireland, due to his father's work as manager with the Munster & Leinster Bank. Aged 7, he was sent to Wimbledon, London to his aunt. In 1963 on the death of his father, John Francis Kiely, he was in the care of his guardian and uncle, Edward Vaughan-Neil who sent him to Mt St. Joseph’s Abbey, Roscrea where he was a boarder from 1966 to 1969. He completed his education in Blackrock College, Dublin, from 1969 to 1971.

Wandering, work, academic life

He became a field study technician for Smedley HP in Cambridgeshire 1973–1975 and wandered in Europe working part-time at various jobs while reading in the national libraries of many countries, but otherwise mainly residing in Paris and London. Kiely attended University College Galway in 1976, participating on the Art Council-funded National Writers Workshop, taught Literature in Colegio Xaloc, Barcelona and was made an honorary fellow of Iowa University in 1983. He holds a Masters in Literature from Trinity College in 2005 and a PhD from University College Dublin in 2009. His doctoral thesis on John L. Sweeney: Patron of Poetry at Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room gained him an American Fulbright Award in 2007, enabling years of full-time lecturing at American universities including Boise State University and the University of Idaho, and research at Harvard. The doctoral thesis formed the basis of Harvard’s Patron: Jack of All Poets an A-Z critical study of modernist American poets associated with The Edward Woodberry Poetry Room Harvard University. Sweeney as Irish-American millionaire and patron, greatly contributed in terms of patronage to poets E. E. Cummings , Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and many others which Kiely prefigured in various essays discussing poets and their patrons before the publication of Harvard's Patron: Jack of All Poets (2018).

Writings

Kiely co-edited The Belle, a counter-cultural magazine, with Maurice Scully from 1978 to 1979. He moved from Dublin to Spain where he taught at Colegio Xaloc and gave public lectures on poetry and literature.

Quintesse, published in 1982 in Dublin by Co-Op Books, found a New York publisher in 1985. During this period he was invited to the University of Iowa on the International Writing Programme Fellowship working with the American poet Paul Engel as well as poets Gary Snyder, Marvin Bell and Jorie Graham. Mere Mortals, an experimental pastiche of the post-Joycean novel, was published in 1989 in Dublin.

With publication of the biography of Francis Stuart author of the Penguin Classic Black List, Section H one of twenty-five novels, Kiely found support and condemnation because of Stuart’s conflicted life including the Second World War era in Berlin broadcasting at Haus des Rundfunks which had earned him the scandalous epithet the Irish Lord Haw-Haw. While the book was extensively reviewed, the long existing controversy over Stuart became amplified into further controversy. The book titled Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast came out in Ireland and America, and Kiely's stance was seen by some as "diplomatic" whereas some others suggested that Kiely was "not writing the book that more opinionated readers, eager to prove Stuart's lapses, would have demanded." The re-issue of the revised edition of the Stuart biography in 2017 alongside Geoffrey Elliott's biography of John Lodwick brought to public attention the Stuart-Lodwick association of writers who took different sides in WWII and thereafter formed an ideological friendship.

Kiely's poetry such as the collection Breakfast with Sylvia, published in 2005 received the Kavanagh Fellowship in 2006, was highly praised in America and Ireland by leading poets, ‘Kiely has a reputation as strong in Europe and the US as it is here'. The portrait of Kevin Kiely by Maeve McCarthy RHA gained the Ireland-US Council Portrait Award in 2006.

Besides book publication and work in many anthologies, his poetry has appeared in The Edinburgh Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Adrift (New York), Foolscap (London), Oasis (London), Acumen (UK), Other Poetry (UK), Cyphers, The Literary Review (New Jersey), Chapman (Scotland), Southword, Cork Literary Review, The Black Mountain Review, The Shop, Fortnight, Storm (Scotland), Touchstone (UK), Stony Thursday Book, Idaho Arts Quarterly, The Journal: Cumbria (UK), Decanto (UK), The Poetry Bus, The Sunday Independent, Revival Literary Journal, Red Poetry (Wales), Irish American Post, The Minetta Review (New York), Wild Violet Magazine, Pinched (London), Underground Press, (New York), SPRING: the journal of the ee cummings society, The Laughing Dog (US), ANU/A New Ulster 38, New Poetry International, Café Review (USA), Village: politics and culture, Pratik.

Kiely's plays, Multiple Indiscretions (1997) and Children of No Importance (2000), have been produced by RTÉ as well as "In This Supreme Hour" at the Derry Playhouse in 2016. He is also a successful novelist for young readers. A Horse Called El Dorado won the CBI Bisto Award in 2006. SOS Lusitania (2013) is a novel about war, politics and conspiracy theory and was the One Book One Community Choice in the Centenary Year of the Lusitania for 2015 during The Remember the Lusitania Project. His most recent adult fiction is The Welkinn Complex, which exposes psychiatric practice and the pharmaceutical industry, while UCD Belfield Metaphysical: a retrospective is a collection of poems published in 2017.

Kiely received Arts Council Literature Bursary Awards for his writings in 1980, 1989, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2004, A Bisto Award in 2005 and The Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry 2006.

Criticism

Kiely had begun reviewing poetry and literature, first with John Mulcahy's Hibernia, and later for various publications including The Examiner and Books Ireland. He became New Writing Editor and later Literary Editor (2000–2005) on Books Ireland at the invitation of its founder, Jeremy Cecil Addis, in 1995. He writes extensive and controversial criticism in Hibernia, Irish Examiner, The Democrat Arts Page, Irish Studies Review, Honest Ulsterman, Fortnight, Books Ireland, The London Magazine, The Irish Book Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Irish Times, Irish Arts Review, Irish Literary Review, Idaho Arts Quarterly, Humanities (DC), Village Magazine: politics and culture, The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Robert Frost Review and MAKE IT NEW.

Kiely's poetry criticism is not just confined to homegrown Irish publishing which he has extensively commented on in many reviews and surveys. He questioned the pervasively state-funded poetry scene amidst the arts in general "amidst cliques and cabals", and made public the lack of accountability of many arts institutions. He launched vociferous and persistent criticism of institutions such as Aosdána, which he feels are anathema to the identity and autonomy of the serious artist. His statements about the Arts Council's Aosdána reflect the wider concern along with other artists such as Robert Ballagh in relation to public funding channels devoid of accountability.

His literary criticism reached national news when he reviewed President Michael D. Higgins' Selected Poems in 2012 calling his poems "crimes against literature". Paul Durcan, quoted by The Irish Central, defended Michael D. Higgins, who, in his view, "has an absolute commitment to the spirit of poetry." Kiely responded through the Sunday Independent "In supporting the poetry of President Higgins, the Aosdana group prove that their own critical faculty and writing is of the same standard". Kiely's recent works in criticism, Harvard's Patron Jack of all Poets, about the Woodberry Poetry Room, and critical exegesis Seamus Heaney and the Great Poetry Hoax, prompted the American poet Carlo Parcelli to comment 'Kiely has unmasked a fraud that as he predicted years ago has burgeoned into an institutional conspiracy to honour the mediocre and the sham.'

The publication of Arts Council Immortals albeit the unofficial biography of the Arts Council 1951-2020 was praised by independent underground arts practitioners, writers and poets but has also involved legal action behind the scenes and unease among establishment commentators including John Burns who found it 'makes Finnegans Wake look like a Ladybird book'

Epic poetry

In 2011, Kiely began cross-community workshops and talks in Northern Ireland, sporadically based in Derry with the Eden Place Arts Centre and with Pauline Ross’s Playhouse Theatre which resulted in various writers' groups anthologies. Ten years contact with Ireland’s conflicted peace process region, resulted in the two volumes of Yrland Regained: Central Cantos ‘structured’ within American modernist poetry techniques which evokes the Six Counties Sectarian War (1966-1998) and Ireland’s centuries struggle towards full independence and unity. In 2021 he was invited as editorial adviser/proofreader on Pamela Mary Brown’s Questions of Legacy and progressed to their co-writing poetry for the short film ‘O City, City’ a heritage commission by the Derry City and Strabane District Council.

Published works

  • Pieta, The Anthology (short fiction) ed. Leland Bardwell Co-Op Books Dublin 1982
  • Quintesse, St Martin's Press, New York 1985. Gavin Witt, English Major, Yale University wrote a study of Quintesse, 1988
  • Mere Mortals, Poolbeg, Dublin 1989 (Short-List Hughes & Hughes Fiction Prize 1990)
  • Multiple Indiscretions, RTÉ 1997
  • Children of No Importance, RTÉ 2000
  • Plainchant for a Sundering (long-poem) Lapwing, Belfast 2001
  • A Horse Called El Dorado, O'Brien Press, Dublin 2005 (Bisto Honour Award, 2006)
  • Breakfast with Sylvia, Lagan Press, Belfast 2005/US Edition 2007; Awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry 2006
  • Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast, Liffey Press, Dublin 2007, Areopagitica Publishing 2017 (Authorised Biography)
  • Something Sensational To Read in the Train (anthology foreword: Brendan Kennelly) Lemon Soap Press, Dublin 2005
  • Catullus: One Man of Verona Anthology, ed. Ronan Sheehan Farmar & Farmar Ltd 2010
  • The Welkinn Complex Number One Son Publishing Co., Florida USA 2011; Areopagitica Publishing (Revised Edition) 2016
  • Ends & Beginnings: Anthology eds. John Gery and William Pratt AMS Press Inc, New York 2011 Windows Anthology eds. Heather Brett and Noel Monahan 2012
  • In Place of Love and Country eds. Richard Parker & John Gery Crater Press, London 2013
  • SOS Lusitania, O'Brien Press, Dublin 2013
  • The Taking of Christ (co-authored with Pamela Mary Brown) 2013
  • 1916-2016 An Anthology of Reactions eds. John Liddy & Dominic Taylor The Limerick Writers' Centre, 2016
  • UCD Belfield Metaphysical: a retrospective , Lapwing Press, Belfast 2017
  • The Office on Serious Street, Writers Room Anthology, Eden Place Arts Centre, Derry 2017
  • Seamus Heaney and the Great Poetry Hoax Areopagitica, 2018
  • Harvard’s Patron: Jack of All Poets Areopagitica, 2018
  • UCD Belfield Metaphysical: New & Selected Poems Areopagitica, 2018
  • Dracula and Luna (co-authored with Pamela Mary Brown) Areopagitica 2018
  • Cromwell Milton Collins Carson from "Yrland Regained: Central Cantos" Cyberwit, Allahabad, India 2020
  • Endgames: Good Friday Agreement & Missus Windsor's Hitmen Cantos Cyberwit, Allahabad, India 2020
  • Arts Council Immortals Areopagitica 2020
  • I shot the President's verse: Selected Journalism Areopagitica 2021
  • Yrland Regained: Central Cantos I & II Areopagitica 2022
  • Hotel Baudelaire: reservations and cancellations Areopagitica 2022
  • The Candle of Vision A.E. (George William Russell) Introduction by Kevin Kiely Spa Cottage Publishing, 2022
  • The Irish Percy French Introduction by Kevin Kiely Spa Cottage Publishing, 2022
  • Secret Lives: Selected Poems and Prose of Susan Langstaff Mitchell Introduction by Kevin Kiely Spa Cottage Publishing, 2022
  • The Selected Poems of Jane Elgee-Wilde Introduction by Kevin Kiely Spa Cottage Publishing, 2022
  • Thomas Moore: Political Poems Introduction by Kevin Kiely Spa Cottage Publishing, 2024
  • The Principles of Poetry DI + ID = Ψ Psi Spa Cottage Publishing, 2024

Further reading

  • Kiely, Kevin "Aos Dána: where self-selection meets self-praise, in a faux Gaelic, Haugheyesque arts beano", Village Magazine, February–March 2014.
  • Kiely, Kevin "Kevin Kiely puts the boot into Seamus Heaney", Village Magazine, August 2014.
  • Kiely, Kevin "Enduring Irish Sculpture", Village Magazine, September 2014.
  • Kiely, Kevin "our top-heavy Arts Council", Village Magazine, March 2015.
  • Kiely, Kevin "Failing again to find Caravaggio", Village Magazine, July 2015.
  • Kiely, Kevin "Canon and on and on", Village Magazine, September 2015.
  • Parcelli, Carlo "Shame us, Séamus or at least say something genuine", Village Magazine, June 2018.


References

  1. John Flanagan: Obituary in New York Times, June 5, 1938
  2. "Jack & Maire Sweeney". Ucd.ie. 1 December 1988. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  3. Kiely, Kevin (2011). John Lincoln Sweeney: patron to poets at the Edward Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (1942-1969) (Thesis). Dublin: University College Dublin. OCLC 939710227.
  4. Kiely, Kevin (2019). "Robert Frost in Ireland: John L. Sweeney and Frost, Patronage, and the Poet as Public Ambassador". The Robert Frost Review (29): 18–29. ISSN 1062-6999. JSTOR 26870315.
  5. "Kevin Kiely - Page 3". makeitnew.ezrapoundsociety.org. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  6. Kiely, Kevin (2013). "Cummings, Sweeney, and the Controversy over "Thanksgiving (1956)"". Spring (20): 71–81. ISSN 0735-6889. JSTOR 43915446.
  7. "Title Information, The belle, a quarterly journal of belles-lettres, Kevin Kiely, editor, contributions by Anthony Cronin et al". Dublincity.ie. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  8. "Essays by Robert Bly". Robertbly.com. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  9. Murphy, John L. "Francis Stuart", Études irlandaises, 35-1, 2010
  10. Murphy, Richard T. New Hibernia Review Volume 12, Number 3, Fómhar/Autumn 2008 pp. 158-160.
  11. "Adventurers in Immortality and Nazism". 29 January 2018.
  12. McAuley, James J. “Wit, Laments and Bodhrán Satire,” Irish Times, 16 July 2005.
  13. Coulter, Riann (Summer 2006). "'Reclaiming portraiture'" (PDF). Irish Arts Review: 61–2.
  14. "Bisto plot thickens". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  15. Kevin Kiely. "The Poet Unmasked in the Pisan Cantos" (PDF). Lcm.unige.it. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  16. Kiely, Kevin; Jenkins, Lee M. (27 March 2013). ""I Hope I Haven't Made Another Lampshade": Stevens and John L. Sweeney". The Wallace Stevens Journal. 37 (1): 91–98. doi:10.1353/wsj.2013.0013. S2CID 170951737 – via Project MUSE.
  17. "Poetry Ireland | Resources | Feature Articles". Poetryireland.ie. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  18. "Books: Digging for the real worth of Seamus Heaney". Independent.ie. 9 November 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  19. "Our top-heavy Arts Council". 6 March 2015. Archived from the original on 25 February 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  20. "Aos Dana". 1 February 2014.
  21. John Spain (10 February 2012). "Critic says President's poems a 'crime against literature'". Independent.ie. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  22. "Kiely rebukes criticism of his essay on Higgins's book". Independent.ie. 19 February 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  23. "Kiely rebukes criticism of his essay on Higgins's book". independent. 19 February 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  24. "Carlo Parcelli | National Beat Poetry Foundation". Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  25. "Shame us, Seamus".
  26. Burns, John (16 February 2020). "Atticus: President Michael D Higgins gifts book of rude poems to library". www.thetimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  27. Kiely, Kevin (2022). "Yrland Regained: Central Cantos" I & II. Areopagitica Publishing. pp. 1-45 (available) https://www.amazon.com/YRLAND-REGAINED-CENTRAL-CANTOS-II. ISBN 979-8662833913.
  28. Introduction to History & Heritage of Derry's Walls, 30 November 2020, retrieved 24 March 2022

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