Desmond Egan
Desmond Egan (born 15 July 1936 in
Athlone,
County Westmeath) is an Irish poet. He has published 24 Collections of poetry and published translations of
Sophocles'
Philoctetes and
Euripides'
Medea. His own work has been translated into
Albanian,
Bulgarian,
Croatian,
Czech,
Dutch,
French,
German,
Greek,
Hungarian,
Italian,
Japanese,
Polish,
Swedish,
Chinese,
Spanish, Slovenian and
Russian. He founded The Goldsmith Press (1972), edited the quarterly magazine for the arts Era (1974-1984), and starting in 1987 he has served as artistic director of the Gerard Manley Hopkins International Festival each July in
Kildare, Ireland.
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