Catherine Byron

A poet whose career began in the later twentieth century, CB has published six volumes of poetry, one semi-autobiograpical prose narrative, two autobiographical essays, poetry reviews, and a series of online collaborations combining poetry and visual art, as well as an online writer's journal. She has co-edited a poetry anthology and contributed to others, and she has written radio scripts for the BBC . She writes about women in Irish culture, mythology, and literature, and about the life processes of transformation, metamorphosis, and (re)generation. Her feminist politics inform all of her writing.

Milestones

22 August 1947

Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) was born in London.
Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Jane Haslett.

From 1953

Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) began writing poetry at the age of six. She went on doing so until she was twenty, at which point she married and stopped writing for ten years.
Vianu, Lidia. “The Best Critic is the Editor Within: Interview with Catherine Byron”. Desperado Literature.
Byron, Catherine. “The Most Difficult Door”. Women’s Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, pp. 185-96.
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Biography

Birth and Family

22 August 1947

Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) was born in London.
Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Jane Haslett.