Billy Mills, poet, editor, formerly literary journalist at guardian.co.uk

He was born Dublin in 1954. After some years spent in Spain and the UK, he currently lives in Limerick. He is co-editor (with Catherine Walsh) of hardpressed Poetry. His Lares/Manes: Collected Poems was published by Shearsman in 2009, and Imaginary Gardens and Loop Walks by hardPressed poetry in 2012 and 2013 respectively. Most recently, The City Itself was published by Hesterglock Press in 2017.

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BOOKS

  • Genesis and Home (hardPressed Poetry, 1985)
  • On First Looking into Lorine Niedecker (hardPressed poetry 1986)
  • A Small Love Song (Red Wheelbarrow Press, 1986 [folded broadsheet])
  • Triple Helix (hardPressed poetry 1987)
  • Letters From Barcelona (Dedalus 1990)
  • Properties Of Stone (Writers Forum, London 1996)
  • 5 Easy Pieces (Shearsman, Plymouth, 1997)
  • Horace: 5 Traductions (Form Books, London, 1997)
  • Tiny Pieces (Wild Honey, Dublin 1998)
  • A Small Book of Songs (Wild Honey, Dublin 1999)
  • What is a Mountain? (hardPressed poetry 2000)
  • Logical Fallacies (hardPressed poetry 2004)
  • from Paper Places (Longhouse, Vermont 2006)
  • Lares/Manes: Collected Poems (Shearsman, 2009)
  • Imaginary Gardens (hardPressed poetry 2012)
  • Loop Walks (with David Bremner, hardPressed poetry 2013)
  • from Pensato (Smithereens Press, 2013)
  • The City Itself ( Hesterglock Press 2017)

SELECTED MAGAZINES

  • The Beau (Dublin)
  • Figs (Winster U.K.)
  • Voicefree (Dublin)
  • Mini (Riva San Vitale, Switzerland)
  • Infolio (Cambridge)
  • Pensionante de’Saraceni (Caprarica di Lecce, Italy)
  • Staple Diet (Durham)
  • Bazzin (Buxton, U.K.)
  • Poesie Europa (Frankfurt)
  • Penumbra (Dublin)
  • Took (San Francisco)
  • Gargara (Dublin)
  • Eonta (London)
  • Folded Sheets (Hebden Bridge, U.K)
  • Longhouse (Vermont, U.S.A.)
  • New American Writing (Chicago)
  • Active in Airtime (Colchester U.K.)
  • West Coast Line (Canada)
  • Shearsman (Plymouth U.K.)
  • Talisman Irish Poetry Feature Issue (New York)
  • Cleaves
  • Origin 6th Series (Longhouse, Vermont)

ANTHOLOGIES

  • Voicefree ’86 (Dublin)
  • Louis Zukofsky, or Whoever Someone Else Thought He Was (London 1988)
  • C.C.C.P. 3 (Cambridge 1993)
  • Soleil + Chair (London 1991)
  • Horace Whom I Hated So (London 1993)
  • Etruscan Jetty (6 Towns Poetry Festival 1996)
  • A State of Independence (Stride, Exeter 1998)
  • Other (Wesleyan University Press, 1999)

SELECTED PROSE

  • Behind All Archetypes: Brian Coffey’s Poems and Versions, an Essay/Review (Form Books, London, 1995)
  • Coffey/Dante/Pound: A Personal Encounter in Keatinge, Benjamin & Woods, Aengus (editors): Other Edens: The Life and Work of Brian Coffey. Irish Academic Press (2009)
  • Since 2007, regular contributor to the Guardian Books site, including the popular Poster Poems series: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/billymills

SELECTED READINGS/PERFORMANCES

  • Voicefree Festival 1985 (Academy Cinema, Dublin)
  • Voicefree Festival 1986 (International Bar, Dublin)
  • Plassey Arts Days ’86, NIHE Limerick
  • Subvocive London 1990
  • Cambridge Conference on Contemporary Poetry (Univ. of Cambridge, 1993)
  • Assembling Alternatives Poetry Conference (Univ. of New Hampshire 1996)
  • 6 Towns Poetry Festival (Stoke on Trent, 1996)
  • Basil Bunting Birthday Reading (Durham 1st March 1997)
  • Festival of Irish Writing (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Aug/Sept 1997)
  • Tallaght Writers Festival 1997
  • Soundeye Annual Poetry Festival, Cork (1997 – 2009)
  • ‘continuings’: a celebration of the life and work of Brian Coffey (1905-1995) (University of Dublin, Trinity College 21st – 22nd October 2005)
  • Beal Festival (Dublin 2010). Included a reading and performances of settings of two poems.
  • Beal Festival (Dublin 2012). Included the premier of Loop Walks, a poem for choir in collaboration with David Bremner, a reading and performances of settings of three other poems by David.

 

 

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