[citation needed] Delanty was born in Cork City, Ireland, and is generally placed in the Irish tradition, though he is also considered a Vermont and US poet appearing in various US anthologies.
[2] Equally important to him,[citation needed] were the poets who wrote in Irish, in UCC, such as Liam Ó Muirthile, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Louis DePaor and Colm Breathnach.
[citation needed] He also solicited poems from fellow students and poets throughout Ireland and beyond, such as Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan, Edwin Morgan and David Gascoyne.
[citation needed] Other poetry collections include The New Citizen Army (Combat Paper Press), which was a book of political poems concerned with war and climate change and the general complicity of our modern lives.
[citation needed] He is the lead poet in the anthology So Little Time: Words and Images for a World in Climate Crisis, (Green Writers Press, Vermont 2014).
[citation needed] A 2006 article in The Sunday Times said that "Greg Delanty's poems are a subtle combination of political activism and private contemplation".
[citation needed] Greg Delanty is the Co-Editor with Michael Matto of the critically acclaimed and best seller on Amazon The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (Introduced by Seamus Heaney).