John Patrick Brasier-Creagh, best known as Patrick Creagh (23 October 1930 - 19 September 2012), was a British poet and translator.
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'', 2 November 2012.

Life

Patrick Creagh was educated at Wellington College and

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. He and his first wife, Lola Segre, lived in Rome until her sudden death in 1960. Creagh returned to London, losing all his books in transit, but returned to Italy in the late 1960s, travelling with Derek Raymond in an army truck. His second wife Ursula Barr was the ex-wife of Al Alvarez and a granddaughter of

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's wife. After she inherited the rights to ''

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'', the pair were able to buy an old farmhouse called Spanda north of

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. Creagh met the composer

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while teaching at

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, and wrote several libretti for him. In the early 1980s Creagh and Barr separated, and Creagh subsequently lived with his partner Susan Rose, née James, at Panzano in Chianti.

Works

Poetry

* ''Row of Pharaohs'', Heinemann, 1962 * ''A Picture of Tristan: Imitations of Tristan Corbière'', 1965. * ''Dragon Jack-Knifed'', 1966 * ''To Abel and others'', 1970 * ''The lament of the border-guard'', 1980

Translations

* ''Design as art'' by

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, 1970 * ''Selected poems'' by Giuseppe Ungaretti, 1971 * ''Architecture as environment'' by Flavio Conti, 1978 * ''Splendor of the gods'' by Flavio Giovanni Conti, 1978 * ''The Moral Essays'' or ''Moral Tales'' by

Giacomo Leopardi Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century and one of the greatest a ...

, 1983Published in 1983 by Columbia University Press as ''The Moral Essays'' (ISBN 978-0231057066) and by Carcanet New Press (Manchester, UK) as ''Moral Tales'' (SBN 85635-420-1) * ''Danube'' by Claudio Magris, 1989: winner of the John Florio Prize 1990 * ''Blind Argus'' by Gesualdo Bufalino, 1989: winner of the John Florio Prize 1990 * '' Beautiful Antonio'' by Vitaliano Brancati, 1993 * ''The keeper of ruins and other inventions'' by

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, 1994 * ''Pereira declares: a testimony'' by

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, 1995 * ''The chimera'' by

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, 1995 * ''The lament of the linnet'' by Anna Maria Ortese * ''The missing head of Damasceno Monteiro'' by

, 1999 * ''Tommaso and the blind photographer'' by

, 2000 * ''The Advocate'' by

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, 2001 * ''Involuntary witness'' by Gianrico Carofiglio, 2005 * ''Memory of the Abyss'' by Marcello Fois 2012: winner of the John Florio Prize 2014

References

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