Tony
Kitt
Tony Kitt lives in Dublin, Ireland. His family hails from
County Mayo in the West of Ireland, as well as from Tuscany, Greece, and
Poland. He has a background in biology, Celtic studies, and classical
music, and has worked as a researcher, a journalist, and a creative writing
tutor.
His poetry chapbook entitled The Magic Phlute has been published by SurVision Books (Dublin, Ireland) in 2019. His poetry collection entitled Endurable Infinity is due from Pittsburgh University Press in the Pitt Series later this year. His poems also appear in such magazines as Oxford Poetry, The North, Plume, Poetry Ireland Review, The Prague Revue, Cyphers, Under the Radar, The American Journal of Poetry, Stride, etc., as well as in a number of anthologies. They have also been translated into Italian and Romanian. He edited the anthology entitled Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (SurVision Books, 2022).
Tony Kitt performed at many festivals across Europe, e.g. in the UK (Manchester, Exeter, Glasgow, Belfast), Germany (Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich), France (Paris), Belgium (Ghent, Liege), Finland (Helsinki, Turku, Lahti), Italy (Rome, Naples, Tuscany), Switzerland (Lausanne, Morges), Croatia (Zagreb, Zadar), Macedonia (Struga), Slovenia (Vilenica), Romania (Craiova, Targu Jiu), Montenegro (Podgorica), Ukraine (Donetsk), and in many Irish towns and cities. In 2003, he won the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize.
His poetry chapbook entitled The Magic Phlute has been published by SurVision Books (Dublin, Ireland) in 2019. His poetry collection entitled Endurable Infinity is due from Pittsburgh University Press in the Pitt Series later this year. His poems also appear in such magazines as Oxford Poetry, The North, Plume, Poetry Ireland Review, The Prague Revue, Cyphers, Under the Radar, The American Journal of Poetry, Stride, etc., as well as in a number of anthologies. They have also been translated into Italian and Romanian. He edited the anthology entitled Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (SurVision Books, 2022).
Tony Kitt performed at many festivals across Europe, e.g. in the UK (Manchester, Exeter, Glasgow, Belfast), Germany (Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich), France (Paris), Belgium (Ghent, Liege), Finland (Helsinki, Turku, Lahti), Italy (Rome, Naples, Tuscany), Switzerland (Lausanne, Morges), Croatia (Zagreb, Zadar), Macedonia (Struga), Slovenia (Vilenica), Romania (Craiova, Targu Jiu), Montenegro (Podgorica), Ukraine (Donetsk), and in many Irish towns and cities. In 2003, he won the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize.