Gabriel Rosenstock

Gabriel Rosenstock, born 1949 in postcolonial Ireland, poet, haikuist, novelist, playwright, short story writer, essayist, author-translator of over 180 books, mostly in Irish (Gaelic). Member Aosdána (Irish academy of arts & letters), Lineage Holder of Celtic Buddhism. Prolific translator into Irish of international poetry (among others Ko Un, Seamus Heaney, K. Satchidanandan, Rabindranath Tagore, Muhammad Iqbal, Peter Huchel), plays (Beckett, Frisch, Yeats) songs (Bob Dylan, Kate Bush, Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley, Van Morrison, Lieder and art songs). He also writes for children, in prose and verse. Represented in Best European Fiction 2012 (Dalkey Archive Press) and Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W. W. Norton & Co. 2013). Books Ireland, Summer 2012, says of his novel My Head is Missing: ‘This is a departure for Rosenstock but he is surefooted as he takes on the comic genre and writes a story full of engaging characters and a plot that keeps the reader turning the page.’ He also writes for children, in prose and verse.' Where Light Begins is a selection of his haiku. The Invisible Light features haiku in Irish, English, Spanish and Japanese with work by American master photographer Ron Rosenstock with whom he worked on the DVD The Light Within: https://vimeo.com/77899406 New and selected poems I OPEN MY POEM …(translated from the Irish) published in 2014 by PoetryWala, Mumbai, and in Ireland by CIC as Margadh na Míol in Valparaíso/ The Flea Market in Valparaíso. Other English-language titles include The Partisan and other stories (Evertype), Haiku Enlightenment (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), The Naked Octopus, erotic haiku (Evertype), Uttering Her Name (Salmon), The Pleasantries of Krishnamurphy (Non-Duality Press), Haiku, the Gentle Art of Disappearing (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). December 25, 2014, saw the Kindle publication of two gendai haiku volumes in Kyoto, inspired by Che Guevara and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche respectively.