Tony
Kitt
Tony Kitt lives in Dublin, Ireland. His family hails from
County Mayo in the West of Ireland, as well as from Tuscany, Greece, Ukraine, 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. He obtained a PhD in biomedical science in 1987.
His poetry collection entitled Endurable Infinity has been published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in the Pitt Series in autumn 2022. His poetry chapbook entitled The Magic Phlute has been brought out by SurVision Books (Dublin, Ireland) in 2019.
His poems also appear in such magazines as Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, The North, The Café Review, Plume, Matter, The Fortnightly Review, The Honest Ulsterman, The New Ulster, The Prague Revue, Cyphers, etc., as well as in a number of anthologies. They have also been translated into Italian, Greek, Romanian, Ukrainian, Albanian, and Chinese. He edited the Contemporary Tangential Surrealist Poetry anthology (SurVision Books, 2023) and the anthology entitled Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (SurVision Books, 2022).
Tony Kitt performed at many literary 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), and in many Irish cities and towns. In 2003, he won the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize.
His poetry collection entitled Endurable Infinity has been published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in the Pitt Series in autumn 2022. His poetry chapbook entitled The Magic Phlute has been brought out by SurVision Books (Dublin, Ireland) in 2019.
His poems also appear in such magazines as Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, The North, The Café Review, Plume, Matter, The Fortnightly Review, The Honest Ulsterman, The New Ulster, The Prague Revue, Cyphers, etc., as well as in a number of anthologies. They have also been translated into Italian, Greek, Romanian, Ukrainian, Albanian, and Chinese. He edited the Contemporary Tangential Surrealist Poetry anthology (SurVision Books, 2023) and the anthology entitled Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (SurVision Books, 2022).
Tony Kitt performed at many literary 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), and in many Irish cities and towns. In 2003, he won the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize.
