Congratulations to Conor O’Callaghan whose collection The Sun King has been shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2014.
Other titles on the shortlist are:
Tara Bergin This is Yarrow (Carcanet)
Nick Laird Go Giants (Faber & Faber)
Sinéad Morrissey Parallex (Carcanet)
Billy Ramsell The Architect’s Dream (Dedalus Press)
The Irish Times Poetry Now Award is presented annually to the author of the best collection of poems in English published by an Irish poet in the previous year. The Award is made possible by the generous support of The Irish Times and will be presented at the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival on Saturday 13th September 2014.
Judges for this year’s award are Katie Donovan, Nessa O’Mahony and Chris Morash.