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Sexton was born of Irish parents in Newington Green, London, in 1958. He moved to Ireland in 1982 and now resides in Kenmare, County Kerry.

He was born Catholic but has disowned that religion and describes himself as a pagan. He is inspired by what he calls a Muse Goddess, which is "the feminine and ancient energy that informs creation".^[4]

Work

Poetry and fiction

After moving to Ireland in his early twenties, Sexton's first fiction and poetry appeared in the New Irish Writing supplement of the daily Irish newspaper The Irish Press, edited by David Marcus. Under Marcus' mentorship he began writing book reviews for that newspaper, contributing reviews of poetry, folklore, and comparative religion during the early to mid 1980's.^[5]

Sexton's first published short story, Blackthorn, appeared in New Irish Writing in 1983 and was short-listed for the Hennessy Literary Award in 1984.^[6] Much of his fiction and poetry has been identified as falling into the categories of Magic Realism,^[7] Literary Fantasy and Science Fiction.^[8] He has published short stories in the Irish science fiction journal Albedo One. His short story On a Planet Similar to Ours, the Virgin Mary Says No first appeared in Albedo One No. 23^[9] and was reprinted in the 2005 science fiction anthology Emerald Eye: The Best Irish Imaginative Fiction (Aeon Press, Dublin 2005). His fiction has also appeared in The Stinging Fly, Books Ireland and The Journal of Irish Literature.

Sexton's poetry has appeared in many leading Irish journals including The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, THE SHOp, Southword, The Stony Thursday Book and The Penny Dreadful Magazine. He has also appeared in many poetry anthologies, including Or Volge L'Anno: At The Year's Turning (Dedalus, Dublin 1998), Poets for the Millennium (Bradshaw Books, Cork 1999), Something Beginning With P (The O'Brien Press, Dublin 2004), In The Criminal's Cabinet (Nth Position, London 2004), Our Shared Japan (Dedalus, Dublin 2007), and The Echoing Years: An Anthology Of Poetry From Canada & Ireland (WIT / SCOP / Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Ireland and Canada 2007).

Music

In 1999 Sexton collaborated with Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell on a CD project where, under the pseudonym Sex W. Johnston, he provided lyrics and vocals for their eponymous CD Sons of Shiva. The CD was originally available on the Internet under the independent label, HIS Records (HIS CD001, 1999). This version contained 9 tracks and is no longer available. The CD was then signed to Track Records, expanded to 10 tracks and released in September 2002 (Track Records, TRK1018CD, 2002).^[10] It was launched that same year with a live gig at the Brighton Psychedelic Festival.

Radio

Between 1999 and 2002 Sexton created and wrote the children's science fiction comedy-drama The Ivory Tower, produced and directed by Jacqui Corcoran, for RTÉ Radio.^[11] It ran for four seasons, clocking up 103 half-hour episodes. It was for this series that he created the character of Johnny Coffin who was eventually to appear in the novels published by The O'Brien Press.^[12]^[13]

Editorship and awards

Sexton was the Fiction Editor for The Cork Literary Review in 2007.^[14] In that same year he won the Listowel literary festival Poetry Prize for his poem The Green Owl.^[15]^[16] Also in 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.^[16]^[17]

Bibliography

Poetry collections

Children's novels

Discography

References

1. ^The Echoing Years: An Anthology of Poetry from Canada & Ireland, edited by John Ennis, Randall Maggs & Stephanie McKenzie (published by WIT/SCOP, Canada & Ireland 2007). Note on page 1178.
2. ^CD Sons of Shiva; lyrics and vocals by Sex W. Johnston, music and instrumentals by Hugh Cornwell (Track Records TRK1018CD, England 2002. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425045153/http://www.trackrecords.co.uk/catalogue/track/sons_of_shiva/sos_sos.php |date=25 April 2012 }}
3. ^Essay entitled Another Anonymous Poet, by John W. Sexton. Published in the Poetry Ireland Newsletter, edited by paul Lenehan, July/August 2010.
4. ^Poetry Beyond Faith, Poetry Beyond Dogma
5. ^Bob Neilson. Sex and drugs and rock ‘n roll – hold the drugs, side order of poetry
6. ^Short story titled Blackthorn, by John W. Sexton, page 9 (page entitled NEW IRISH WRITING), The Irish Press (Thursday, 24 November 1983).
7. ^Fiona Curran's review of Vortex by John W. Sexton in the poetry journal Orbis (2007, England).
8. ^Review by Grace Wells, entitled Seeing The World Anew, of the collection Petit Mal by John W. Sexton. Published in Contrary Magazine, Spring 2010.
9. ^Albedo One #23, Spring 2001. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927031227/http://www.albedo1.com/shop.html |date=27 September 2011 }}
10. ^'Sons of Shiva' {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425045129/http://www.trackrecords.co.uk/artists/sons_of_shiva/artist_sos.php |date=25 April 2012 }} on Track Records
11. ^"Ivory Tower Producer Is Radio Ga Ga", by Phillip Nolan, originally published in The Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland) on 9 November 2000.
12. ^Autobiographical note on pages 138–140 of The Johnny Coffin Diaries by John W. Sexton (The O'Brien Press, Dublin 2001).
13. ^"A Note From The Author", pages 247–248 of Johnny Coffin School-Dazed by John W. Sexton (The O'Brien Press, Dublin 2002).
14. ^The Cork Literary Review, Volume XII, 2007; edited by Eugene O'Connell, Sheila O'Hagan & John W. Sexton.
15. ^See the anthology, Writers' Week Listowel Winners 2007, pages 49 – 50 (published by Writers' Week Listowel, Ireland, 2007). {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405175834/http://www.writersweek.ie/2007/competitions.htm |date= 5 April 2012 }}
16. ^¹[https://archive.is/20130119114455/http://circareview.com/?page_id=949 Circa – A Literary Review]
17. ^Acknowledgements page (page 6) of the collection Petit Mal by John W. Sexton (Revival Press, Ireland, 2009).

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