{{Short description|British poet and translator}} {{distinguish|Patrick Cregg}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''John Patrick Brasier-Creagh''', best known as '''Patrick Creagh''' (23 October 1930 - 19 September 2012), was a British poet and translator.<ref name=TelegraphObit>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/9652332/Patrick-Creagh.html Patrick Creagh], ''The Daily Telegraph'', 2 November 2012.</ref>
==Life== Patrick Creagh was educated at Wellington College and Brasenose College, Oxford. He and his first wife, Lola Segre, lived in Rome until her sudden death in 1960.<ref name=TelegraphObit/>
Creagh returned to London, losing all his books in transit, but returned to Italy in the late 1960s, travelling with Derek Raymond in an army truck. His second wife Ursula Barr was the ex-wife of Al Alvarez and a granddaughter of D. H. Lawrence's wife. After she inherited the rights to ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'', the pair were able to buy an old farmhouse called Spanda north of Siena.<ref name=TelegraphObit/>
Creagh met the composer John Eaton while teaching at Princeton University, and wrote several libretti for him.<ref name=TelegraphObit/>
In the early 1980s Creagh and Barr separated, and Creagh subsequently lived with his partner Susan Rose, née James, at Panzano in Chianti.<ref name=TelegraphObit/>
==Works==
===Poetry=== * ''Row of Pharaohs'', Heinemann, 1962 * ''A Picture of Tristan: Imitations of Tristan Corbière'', 1965. * ''Dragon Jack-Knifed'', 1966 * ''To Abel and others'', 1970 * ''The lament of the border-guard'', 1980
===Translations=== * ''Design as art'' by Bruno Munari, 1970 * ''Selected poems'' by Giuseppe Ungaretti, 1971 * ''Architecture as environment'' by Flavio Conti, 1978 * ''Splendor of the gods'' by Flavio Giovanni Conti, 1978 * ''The Moral Essays'' or ''Moral Tales'' by Giacomo Leopardi, 1983<ref>Published in 1983 by Columbia University Press as ''The Moral Essays'' (ISBN 978-0231057066) and by Carcanet New Press (Manchester, UK) as ''Moral Tales'' (SBN 85635-420-1)</ref> * ''Danube'' by Claudio Magris, 1989: winner of the John Florio Prize 1990 * ''Blind Argus'' by Gesualdo Bufalino, 1989: winner of the John Florio Prize 1990 * ''Beautiful Antonio'' by Vitaliano Brancati, 1993 * ''The keeper of ruins and other inventions'' by Gesualdo Bufalino, 1994 * ''Pereira declares: a testimony'' by Antonio Tabucchi, 1995 * ''The chimera'' by Sebastiano Vassalli, 1995 * ''The lament of the linnet'' by Anna Maria Ortese * ''The missing head of Damasceno Monteiro'' by Antonio Tabucchi, 1999 * ''Tommaso and the blind photographer'' by Gesualdo Bufalino, 2000 * ''The Advocate'' by Marcello Fois, 2001 * ''Involuntary witness'' by Gianrico Carofiglio, 2005 * ''Memory of the Abyss'' by Marcello Fois 2012: winner of the John Florio Prize 2014
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