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Northern Irish poet (1967-2004)
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About Mairtín Crawford
- Mairtín Crawford (25 November 1967 – 11 January 2004) was a poet and journalist who was born and educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was educated at Rathmore Grammar School and then Queen's University Belfast. He co-founded and edited the Big Spoon literary arts magazine in the 1990s, was production and arts editor of Fortnight magazine, was a creative writing tutor at (amongst other places) the Crescent Arts Centre for eight years, and was appointed Director of Between The Loins Arts Festival for 2004.
- He died soon after from an overdose. Mairtín brought "Beat" poet Allen Ginsberg to Belfast in 1993 for two public reading events.
- Among several trips to the USA, in 2001 (as the recipient of an Arts Council Individual Artists’ Award) Mairtín travelled west and met with NASA personnel to research a book of poetry dealing with the concept and implications of space flight.
- Some of the resulting poems are published in his (posthumous) Selected Poems.
