Career
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Poet. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC Radio), Belfast, Northern Ireland, radio producer, 1973-78; senior producer, 1978-85; television producer, 1985-86; Columbia University, School of Arts, part-time teacher, 1987-88; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, lecturer in writing, 1987—, part-time teacher, 1987-88, director of creative writing program, 1993—, professor, 1995—; University of California, Berkeley, Roberta Holloway Lecturer, 1989; University of Massachusetts, visiting professor, 1989-90; University of Oxford, Professor of Poetry, 1999—.