Majestic Dreams, which contain a selection of his essays and reviews. A new collection of his essays, The Outnumbered Poet from Gallery Press was published in 2013. Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, an acclaimed 500-page volume of his interviews with 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, Seamus Heaney, was published in 2008. He served as a judge for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2009. He was editor of A Michael Hamburger Reader, published by Anvil Press in 2013. List of works Poetry collections Kist (Dolmen Press, 1982) Hidden Extras (Anvil Press Poetry, London/Dedalus Press, Dublin, 1987) Long Story Short (Anvil Press Poetry/Dedalus Press, 1993) Quality Time (Anvil Press Poetry, 1997) Weather Permitting (Anvil Press Poetry, 1999), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Prize 2001 Exemplary Damages (Anvil Press Poetry, 2002) New and Selected Poems (Anvil Press Poetry, 2004) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Reality Check (Anvil Press Poetry, 2007/ Copper Canyon Press, US, 2008), was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Poetry Now Prize Dear Life (Anvil Press Poetry, 2012/ Copper Canyon Press, US, 2013). Update (Copper Canyon Press, US, 2015) Poetry chapbooks The Bottom Line (Dedalus Editions, 1994) 50 O'Clock (Happy Dragons' Press, UK, 2005)[4] All the Living (Traffic Street Press, Minnesota, 2008). Prose Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams: Selected Prose Writings (Gallery Press, 2001). The Bloodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations (Bloodaxe Books, 2006). Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, US, 2008). Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (Faber and Faber, UK, 2008). The Outnumbered Poet: Critical and Autobiographical Essays (Gallery Press, 2013). Awards and honours Lannan Literary Award E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the Center of Irish Studies in Minnesota Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for New and Selected Poems Shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2008 for Reality Check Winner of The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2013 for Dear Life (posthumous) Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award Honorary doctorate in literature by University College, Dublin References External links (inc interviews and examples of poetry) Audio: Dennis O'Driscoll reads "Some Wonder Am I" from The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Dennis O'Driscoll, 1978-2012 1954 births 2012 deaths Alumni of University College Dublin Aosdána members Irish