Dennis O'Driscoll's books include New and Selected Poems (Anvil, 2004) and The Bloodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations (Bloodaxe, 2006). Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams, a selection of essays and reviews, appeared from Gallery Press in 2001. Among his awards are a Lannan Literary Award in 1999, the 2005 E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2006 O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the Center for Irish Studies (Minnesota). A member of Aosdana, the Irish academy of artists, he works as a civil servant in Dublin Castle.
