Kevin Kiely
- January 9, 2024
- Poet
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Kevin Kiely |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Date Of Birth | Jun 2, 1953(1953-06-02) |
| Age | 71 |
| Birthplace | Warrenpoint |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth City | Northern Ireland |
| Horoscope | Gemini |
Kevin Kiely Biography
| Name | Kevin Kiely |
| Birthday | Jun 2 |
| Birth Year | 1953 |
| Place Of Birth | Warrenpoint |
| Home Town | Northern Ireland |
| Birth Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
Kevin Kiely is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on June 2, 1953 in Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Kevin Kiely (born 2 June 1953) is a poet, novelist, critic and playwright whose writings and public statements have met with controversy.
He became a field study technician for Smedley HP in Cambridgeshire 1973–1975 and wandered in Europe working part-time at various jobs while reading in the national libraries of many countries, but otherwise mainly residing in Paris and London. Kiely attended University College Galway in 1976, participating on the Art Council-funded National Writers Workshop, taught Literature in Colegio Xaloc, Barcelona and was made an honorary fellow of Iowa University in 1983. He holds a Masters in Literature from Trinity College in 2005 and a PhD from University College Dublin in 2009. His doctoral thesis on John L. Sweeney: Patron of Poetry at Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room gained him an American Fulbright Award in 2007, enabling years of full-time lecturing at American universities including Boise State University and University of Idaho-Moscow, and research at Harvard.
Kevin Kiely Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Kevin Kiely is one of the richest Poet from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kevin Kiely 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Kiely was born on 2 June 1953 in Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland. His grandfather’s brother was the Olympian John Jesus Flanagan, inventor of the hammer for Slazenger America as used in the Olympic Games, and three-times record-breaking gold medallist. Kiely’s childhood was spent in many parts of Ireland, due to his father’s work as manager with the Munster & Leinster Bank. Aged 7, he was sent to Wimbledon, London to his aunt. In 1963 on the death of his father, John Francis Kiely, he was sent by his guardian and uncle, Edward Vaughan-Neil, to Mt St. Joseph’s Abbey, Roscrea where he was a boarder from 1966 to 1969. He completed his education in Blackrock College, Dublin, from 1969 to 1971.
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Kiely had begun reviewing poetry and literature, first with John Mulcahy’s Hibernia, and later for various publications including The Examiner and Books Ireland. He became New Writing Editor and later Literary Editor (2000–2005) on Books Ireland at the invitation of its founder, Jeremy Cecil Addis, in 1995. He writes extensive and controversial criticism in Hibernia, Irish Examiner, The Democrat Arts Page, Irish Studies Review, Honest Ulsterman, Fortnight, Books Ireland, The London Magazine, The Irish Book Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Irish Times, Irish Arts Review, Irish Literary Review, and Idaho Arts Quarterly.
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Khalil Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Kevin Kiely celebrates birthday on June 2 of every year.
His another statement reached national news when he reviewed President Michael D. Higgins’ Selected Poems in 2012 calling his poems “crime against literature”. Irish poet Paul Durcan, quoted by The Irish Central, defended Michael D. Higgins, who, in his view, “has an absolute commitment to the spirit of poetry.” Kiely’s recent works in criticism, Harvard’s Patron Jack of all Poets, about the Woodberry Poetry Room, and critical exegesis of Seamus Heaney, prompted the American poet Carlo Parcelli to comment ‘Kiely has unmasked a fraud that as he predicted years ago has burgeoned into an institutional conspiracy to honour the mediocre and the sham.’ The re-issue of the revised edition of the Stuart biography in 2017 alongside Geoffrey Elliott’s biography of John Lodwick brought to public attention the Stuart- Lodwick association of writers who took different sides in WWII and thereafter formed an ideological friendship