AUGUSTUS YOUNG 

Augustus Young is the pen name of James Hogan, who was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1943, worked in London as an epidemiologist and adviser to health authorities, and now lives in France. Over the years as James Hogan he published many scientific papers and pieces of medical journalism. As Augustus Young, he is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Days and Nights in Hendon (Menard Press 2002) and Lightning in Low Places (Cranagh Press, University of Ulster 2000).

The autofiction Light Years (London Magazine Editions/ Menard Press 2002), his first full length work in prose, re-enacts Augustus Young’s literary development as a ‘published poet’ from childhood days in Cork up to nineteen sixties London:
            ‘I haven’t laughed so much since reading (Flann O’Brien’s) The Third Policeman.’ (Alannah Hopkin, The Irish Examiner)

This was followed by Storytime (Elliot and Thompson 2005), a humorously satirical account of Augustus Young’s visit to Ireland to launch his book Light Years:
            ‘Young’s unwillingness to curry favour, which makes him an outsider in the literary world, adds spice to a wryly clever and sometimes touchingly sweet book. There’s honey in the wasp.’ (Brian Lynch, The Irish Independent)

           Augustus Young's poems and prose appear in anthologies and periodicals in Ireland, America and the UK, and international online reviews (Cyphers, Sniper Logic, Books Ireland, London Magazine, Hopscotch, Modern Poetry in Translation, Leviathan Quarterly, Arete, Ars Interpres, Stand, An Sionnach, New Hibernia Review, Temporel, Golden Handcuffs, The International Literary Quarterly, Carte Allineate etc).