John Ennis is an Irishpoet born inCounty Westmeath in 1944.[1]
He retired as head of the School of Humanities atWaterford Institute of Technology in 2009 and now divides his time betweenWaterford and County Westmeath.[2] He is a graduate ofUniversity College Cork andUniversity College Dublin.[3] He won thePatrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1975,[4] theListowel Open Poetry Competition eleven times, and theIrish American Cultural Institute Award in 1996. He has been editor ofPoetry Ireland Review and served on the board of Poetry Ireland for eleven years. From 2003 to 2007, he co-edited three anthologies of Canadian – Irish Poetry. In 2008,Memorial University of Newfoundland awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in Laws for fostering links between Ireland and Newfoundland, and for his poetry.[5] In the 1990s,Seamus Heaney chose him as Ireland's most undeservedly neglected poet.[6]
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