Simmons, James, 1933-2001

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James Simmons was born in 1933 in Derry, Northern Ireland. He attended the University of Leeds as a mature student in the late 1950's where he met lifelong friends Tony Harrison and Wole Soyinka. Simmons went on to teach English at Ahamadu Bello University in Nigeria, Friends School, Lisburn, and the New University of Ulster, Coleraine, and in 1989 was named Writer in Residence at Queens University of Belfast. In 1968, Simmons founded and edited The Honest Ulsterman, a prominent literary magazine in Ulster. He founded The Poets' House, which was a series of summer poetry conferences and later Ireland's first M.A. in Creative Writing, with wife, Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons in 1990. Simmons had seven children, five with first wife, Laura Stinson, one with Imelda Foley, and one with Janice Fitzpatrick. His published collections of poems include: Ten Poems, Ballad of a Marriage, Late but in Earnest, In the Wilderness and Other Poems, No Ties, No Land is Waste, Dr. Eliot, Energy to Burn, The Long Summer Still to Come, West Strand Visions, Memorials of a Tour in Yorkshire, Judy Garland and the Cold War, Constantly Singing, From the Irish, Sex, Rectitude, and Loneliness, Mainstream, and The Company of Children.

From the description of James Simmons papers, 1945-1996. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122463331

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Role Title Holding Repository
referencedIn Derek Mahon papers Emory University. Special Collections and Archives
referencedIn Michael Longley papers Emory University. Special Collections and Archives
referencedIn Frank Ormsby papers Emory University. Special Collections and Archives
referencedIn Seamus Heaney collection Emory University. Special Collections and Archives
referencedIn John Wilson Foster papers Emory University. Special Collections and Archives
referencedIn Desmond O'Grady papers Emory University. Special Collections and Archives
creatorOf James Simmons papers Emory University. Special Collections and Archives
referencedIn Papers, 1971- Swarthmore College, McCabe Library
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associatedWith Ahmadu Bello University. corporateBody
associatedWith Conner, Lester I. person
associatedWith Foley, Michael, 1947- person
associatedWith Foster, John Wilson. person
associatedWith Harrison, Tony, 1937- person
associatedWith Heaney, Seamus. person
associatedWith Heaney, Seamus, 1939- person
associatedWith Hewitt, John Harold, 1907-1987. person
associatedWith Larkin, Philip. person
associatedWith Longley, Michael, 1939- person
associatedWith Mahon, Derek, 1941- person
associatedWith McGuckian, Medbh, 1950- person
associatedWith Muldoon, Paul. person
associatedWith O'Grady, Desmond, 1929- person
associatedWith Ormsby, Frank, 1947- person
associatedWith Poets House (Firm) corporateBody
associatedWith Soyinka, Wole. person
associatedWith University of Leeds. corporateBody
Place Name Admin Code Country
Ireland
Nigeria
Subject
College teachers
Dramatic criticism
English literature
English poetry
Irish poetry
Popular music
Poetry
Poets, Irish
Songs, Irish
Occupation
Teachers
Authors
Critic
Poets
Activity

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Birth 1933-02-14

Death 2001-06-20

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English

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