Tony Kitt Biography

Tony Kitt lives in Dublin, Ireland. His family hails from County Mayo in the West of Ireland, as well as from Tuscany, Greece, and Poland. He has a background in biology, Celtic studies, and classical music, and has worked as a researcher, a journalist, and a creative writing tutor.

His poetry chapbook entitled 'The Magic Phlute' has been published by SurVision Books (Dublin, Ireland) in 2019. His poems also appear in such magazines as Oxford Poetry, The North, Plume, Poetry Ireland Review, The Prague Revue, Cyphers, Under the Radar, The American Journal of Poetry, Stride, etc., as well as in a number of anthologies. They have also been translated into Italian and Romanian.

In 2022, he edited the anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry about the war in English translation entitled 'Invasion' (SurVision Books,2022) .

He performed at many festivals across Europe, e.g. in the UK (Manchester, Exeter, Glasgow, Belfast) , Germany (Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich) , France (Paris) , Belgium (Ghent, Liege) , Finland (Helsinki, Turku, Lahti) , Italy (Rome, Naples, Tuscany) , Switzerland (Lausanne, Morges) , Croatia (Zagreb, Zadar) , Macedonia (Struga) , Slovenia (Vilenica) , Romania (Craiova, Targu Jiu) , Montenegro (Podgorica) , Ukraine (Donetsk) , and in many Irish towns and cities. In 2003, he won the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize.