Name Richard Weber | Role Poet | |
Books Miss Gazillions, Stephen's Green Revisited | ||
Richard Weber, Irish poet, born in 1932 in Dublin, and educated in Dublin public schools and at the National College of Art in Dublin. He was librarian in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and occasionally Lecturer in English there. He has held a variety of jobs, including that of lamplighter in London (1959), bookseller's assistant (London 1959, Dublin 1961), assistant editor The Bookseller, London (1961), librarian at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin (1961 - 1965).
He was poet-in-residence at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1967; from 1967 to 1970 he was a visiting lecturer at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Weber has been advisory editor for Icarus, Journal of Trinity College Dublin and poetry editor for Poetry Ireland Review. He has contributed to many Irish, English, and American journals. His major collections are Lady & Gentleman and Stephen's Green Revisited.
Richard Weber is married and has a daughter, a son, and three grandchildren.