Fallon, Peter, 1951-....

Peter Fallon, poet, editor and publisher, was born in Germany in 1951 but spent his early years on a farm in County Meath, Ireland. He graduated in 1975 with a B.A. in English Language and Literature and an H. Dip. Ed from Trinity College. In 1970, at the age of eighteen, he founded The Gallery Press that has published poems and plays by the Ireland's finest established and emerging authors. The Gallery Press is recognised as the pre-eminent literary publishing house in Ireland. Among the writers it publishes are John Banville, Ciaran Carson, Medbh McGuckian, Derek Mahon, John Montague, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and the playwright Brian Friel. The press has also published books by Paul Durcan, Seamus Heaney, and Paul Muldoon. Fallon first began touring the United States, Europe, and Japan in 1972 and has since given readings, lectures and workshops at over one hundred colleges and universities. In 1976-1977 he served as poet-in-residence at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and in 1979 Fallon was the International Poet-in-Residence in the Indiana Public Schools. Fallon acted as fiction editor at the O'Brien press from 1980-1985. The National Arts Council of Ireland awarded Fallon an Arts Council bursary in 1981. In 1990 he and Derek Mahon edited The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry. Peter Fallon's own collections of poems include The Speaking Stones, Winter Work, The News and Weather, Eye to Eye, and News of the World: Selected and New Poems. A selection of his poems, News of the World: Selected Poems, was published in the United States by Wake Forest University Press.

From the description of Peter Fallon - Gallery Press collection, [ca. 1967-1998]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122583726