MKCW ASSOCIATE PROFILE
Dr Simon Thomas (aka Síomón Solomon) is a Dublin-based poet, playwright, editor, translator and English lecturer. He holds inter-disciplinary academic qualifications in the Humanities, including an MA in Continental Philosophy (Warwick, 1991, with distinction) and an MA in Creative Writing: Poetry (Boston, 1994), the latter under US Scholarship with Derek Walcott, Geoffrey Hill and Rosanna Warren. His PhD thesis (London, 2008) was a trilingual work on the ‘schizopoetics’ of the early Romantic German poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843). His debút play, The Atonement of Lesley Ann, staged at Smock Alley Theatre as part of the 2020 Scene and Heard Festival, was commended by the leading Irish playwright Marina Carr as ‘a fantastic piece, lyrical and terrible and powerful all at the same time’. His first book, Hölderlin’s Poltergeists (Peter Lang, 2020), a creative adaptation of Stephan Hermlin’s 1970 audio play Scardanelli, is slated for theatrical presentation by Queen Mary, University of London in 2023. Current projects include a first collection of poems (working title My Grandfather’s Demon), the ‘pataphysical’ script A Savage God (commended by Druid Theatre Company) and a book of English versions of Georg Trakl poems, Imperfect Penances, for Infinity Land Press.
Contact: simon@martinkeaveney.com
COURSES WITH SIMON
Creative Writing — ONE DAY COURSE — NAVAN
Saturday October 21st 2023 See more here
Play Reading for Playwrights
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