Congratulations to Michelle O’Sullivan whose book The Blue End of Stars has been shortlisted for the Strong/Shine award for Best First Poetry Collection published in 2012. The overall winner will be announced at the Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival in September. The full shortlist is: Eleanor Hooker. The Shadow Owner’s Companion. […]
John Montague’s Speech Lessons, has been shortlisted in the Irish Times dlr Poetry Now award 2012. Also shortlisted are Moya Cannon’s Hands (Carcanet Press), Michael Longley’s A Hundred Doors (Cape Poetry), Bernard O’Donoghue’s Farmers Cross (Faber and Faber) and Macdara Woods’s The Cotard Dimension (Dedalus Press). Judged by James Harpur, Mary Shine Thompson and Gerald Dawe, the €5,000 prize will be be announced in The Irish Times on Saturday 8 September, […]
‘There were some compelling new volumes: John Burnside’s Black Cat Bone and Justin Quinn’s Close Quarters are different in style and subject and gravity, but they are both unmistakable works of a master.’ — Bernard O’Donoghue, TLS. ‘The best book of new poetry this year was Justin Quinn’s Close Quarters, a collection which has creative […]
Peter Sirr won the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2011 with his collection The Thing Is. The winner was announced by Limerick County Arts Office which inaugurated the award in memory of the late Co Limerick poet Michael Hartnett (1941-1999). In their citation, the judges, Tom McCarthy, Mary O’Malley and James Harpur described The Thing Is […]
John McAuliffe’s third collection, Of All Places, is an Autumn (July-September) Recommendation by England’s Poetry Book Society.
Ciaran Berry was the recipient of the inaugural Michael Murphy Memorial Prize for The Sphere of Birds. On National Poetry Day 2010 the English Association announced the inauguration of a new biennial prize for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English published in Britain or Ireland – in the first instance between January 2008 […]
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