Moya Cannon (Irlande)
Moya Cannon (Dunfanaghy, 1956) is an Irish poet. Her seventh collection, Bunting’s Honey (2025), published by Carcanet Press, Manchester, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. In 2021 Carcanet Press published her Collected Poems. Brought up in an Irish speaking family in Dunfanaghy, Co Donegal, she received a BA in History and Politics from University College, Dublin and an MPhil in International Relations from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Her work bears witness to our primal kinship with the natural world, a source of nourishment, joy and solace, but also to our disastrous, onrushing human conquest of that same earth and seas. Archaeology, geology, visual art and music, particularly Irish traditional music, are core preoccupations. Although many of her poems are rooted in native soil and contemporary culture, many others have been sparked by encounters with more distant times and spaces. Her work has been widely anthologised and translated and she has read at festivals and universities in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
A recipient of the inaugural Brendan Behan Award and the O’Shaughnessy Award, she was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University, Philadelphia, and was elected to Aosdana, the affiliation of Irish creative artists, in 2004.
Having spent most of her adult life in Galway, she now lives in Dublin.
