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| Augustus Young |
Painting by Nichol Wheatley
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Augustus Young was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1943, worked in London
as an epidemiologist and adviser to health authorities, and now lives in
France. Over the years he has published many scientific papers and numerous
pieces of medical journalism.
He is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Lightning
in Low Places (Cranagh Press, University of Ulster 2000), and Days
and Nights in Hendon (Menard Press, 2002). The autofiction Light
Years (London Magazine Editions/ Menard Press 2002) was his first full
length work in prose. Numerous stories and poems have appeared over the
years in anthologies and periodicals in Ireland, America and the UK (Cyphers,
Sniper Logic, Books Ireland, London Magazine, Hopscotch, Modern Poetry
in Translation, Leviathan Quarterly, Arete etc.)
Young has just published Storytime (Elliot and Thompson 2005),
a humorously satirical account of ‘Augustus Young’s’ visit to Ireland to
launch his book Light Years. Acutely reflective about a culture
in transition and the possibilities of survival, ‘Augustus’s’ story is
ultimately about two deaths, that of a culture and his own. But for ‘AY’,
‘storytelling’ ensures transition into an afterlife. ‘AY’, naturally, finds
this reassuring both for the culture and himself.
Young has just completed The Search for the Personal Self, volume
one of a trilogy Who Am I Talking to in My Head, and is also working
on prose, poetry and light verse which draws on his nascent knowledge of
the French language.
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