Five poets have been named on the shortlist for this year’s Irish Times Poetry Now award.The poets in contention for the €2000 prize are
Jane Clarke, for When The Tree Falls (Bloodaxe),
Vona Groarke for Double Negative (Gallery Press),
Medbh McGuckian for Marine Cloud Brightening (Gallery),
Paul Muldoon for Frolic and Detour (Faber & Faber) and
Eileán Ni Chuilleanáin for The Mother House (Gallery Press).
The award will be presented to the winner as part of the Mountains-to-Sea literary festival in the dlr Lexicon in Dún Laoghaire on Saturday, March 28th (full programme mountainstosea.ie).
