Catherine Byron

Catherine Byron (born 22 August 1947) is an Irish poet who often collaborates with visual and sound artists.

Catherine Byron
Born	22 August 1947 London
Nationality	Irish
Education	Somerville College, Oxford

Biography

Catherine Greenfield was born in London to a mother from Galway and was raised in Belfast. She has lived in Oxford, Scotland, Derry and County Donegal. She became Catherine Byron when she married at about twenty and had daughters. Educated in Somerville College, Oxford, Byron studied Classics and wrote poetry for most of her life until she married. She stopped writing then for about ten years. Since resuming poetry Byron has published six collections. As well as writing her own poetry, Byron has studied Seamus Heaney and wrote the work Out of Step: Pursuing Seamus Heaney to Purgatory.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Byron frequently works both with artist and calligrapher Denis Brown, and painter and printmaker Eileen Coxon. She has been artist in residence at the Hayward Gallery and the department of Glass & Ceramics at the University of Sunderland. She has taught writing and Medieval Literature at Nottingham Trent University.^{[1][7][4][5][8][9]}

Bibliography

• The Getting of Vellum (Salmon 2001)
• The Fat-Hen Field Hospital (Bristol 1993)
• Settlements and Samhain (Bristol 1993)
• Out of Step: Pursuing Seamus Heaney to Purgatory (prose) (Bristol 1992)

References and sources

1. Byron, Catherine (11 November 2019). "Catherine Byron". Poetry Archive. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
2. "Catherine Byron – The Poetry Society: Poems". The Poetry Society. 6 February 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
3. "Literature Ireland -". Literature Ireland. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
4. "Catherine Byron". Ricorso. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
5. "Catherine Byron". An image of contemporary literature. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
6. "Two poems by Carol Ann Duffy and Catherine Byron". The Guardian. 14 January 2002. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
7. "The Getting of Vellum by Catherine Byron". Salmon Poetry. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
8. "Catherine Byron". A-Gender. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
9. Deane, S.; Bourke, A.; Carpenter, A.; Williams, J. (2002). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. New York University Press. p. 1295. ISBN 978-0-8147-9907-9. Retrieved 23 March 2020.