James Harpur

James Harpur (born 1956)) is an Irish poet and novelist.

James Harpur
Born1956 (age 64–65)
OccupationPoet
Website
www.jamesharpur.com

Life

James Harpur was born in England in 1956. His father was Irish and his mother was English.

While at school he studied Latin, Greek and Divinity and proceeded to Trinity College, University of Cambridge where he studied English.[1]

After graduation he taught English on Crete before moving to West Cork where he has lived since.[2]

He writes both poetry and non-fiction. He has said about his interest in poetry: I have always been fascinated by questions relating to the nature of ultimate truth – is there a God, is there life after death, is there a cosmic intelligence that we call Fate, are extraordinary coincidences a matter of luck or design, are we merely assemblages of atoms blundering around, are our lives, to quote TS Eliot again, a matter of birth, copulation, and death? For my explorations of these questions I have always thought that poetry – the best words in the best order (Coleridge) – was the most apt medium.[3]

He is the poetry editor of the literary journal, Southword[4] and also of the Temenos Academy Review.[5]

He is a member of Aosdána - the Irish Academy of the Arts.

Works

Poetry
  • A Vision of Comets (Anvil Press Poetry, London, 1993)
  • The Monk’s Dream (Anvil Press Poetry, London, 1996)
  • Oracle Bones (Anvil Press Poetry, London, 2001)
  • The Dark Age (Anvil Press Poetry, London, 2007)
  • The Gospel of Joseph of Arimathea (Wild Goose)
  • The White Silhouette (Carcanet, 2018)

Translation
  • Fortune’s Prisoner: The poems of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy (Anvil Press Poetry, London, 2007)

Non-fiction
  • Love Burning in the Soul: the Story of the Christian Mystics (Shambhala, Boston, 2005)

Awards

See also

References
  1. "James Harpur (poet)". Poetry International. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  2. "POETRY AND ULTIMATE TRUTH BY JAMES HARPUR". Culture Magazine. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  3. "POETRY AND ULTIMATE TRUTH BY JAMES HARPUR". Culture Magazine. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  4. "Southword". Munster Literature. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  5. "Temenos Academy Review". Temenos Academy. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  6. "Biography". James Harpur. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
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