The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust is delighted to welcome the Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paul Muldoon, back to Irish shores in 2025, where he will be based at University College Dublin for the Spring semester. From January 22nd until April 16th he will host a series of discussions entitled How to Read a Poem. […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust, in partnership with HOWL New Irish Writing, is delighted to announce a new project that will showcase the ubiquitous talent of Ireland’s emerging poets. Poets who have not yet published a pamphlet or collection will be invited to submit a sample of their work of between twelve and twenty […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust are delighted to host a poetry reading by Professor Michael Longley in the Great Hall, Queen’s University, on Wednesday 11 September 2024 at 7 pm. The reading will mark the publication by Jonathan Cape of Michael Longley’s Ash Keys: New Selected Poems and it will be introduced by Professor […]
Dane Holt’s recent travels to Paris, as part of his ICOP Travel Award 2023, illustrate the opportunity offered by this bursary to develop and explore topics of personal artistic interest. This Travel Award allowed Dane to visit Place Saint-Sulpice, and to sit where Georges Perec had sat in 1974, when he was writing ‘An Attempt […]
The Trustees of the Ireland Chair of Poetry are delighted to announce Scott McKendry as the recipient of the 2024 Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary. Scott was nominated by the Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paul Muldoon, and the Trustees of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust confirmed the nomination. Commenting on their selection, the Trustees […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to announce Susannah Dickey as the recipient of the 2024 Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award. Susannah will receive an award of £2,000 to facilitate her journey to Prague to engage with the work of David Černý. Commenting on this year’s Travel Award the adjudication panel, comprised of […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Student Award. Now in its fifth year, the Student Award is an initiative encouraging the writing of poetry within the three universities that support the Trust. The Trust has awarded the following students: Kali Joy Cramer Ruby Eastwood Kate Morgan Judy […]
A lecture entitled Make Like a Bird by Professor Paul Muldoon will take place in The Great Hall of Queen’s University, Belfast, on 2nd May, 2024. Make Like a Bird, will be a musing by Professor Paul Muldoon, upon various topics including, but not restricted to, Michael Longley, the Royston crow, galoshes, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to open the call for submissions to the 2024 Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award. Now in its fifth year, the award was created to encourage and assist students who are pursuing Master’s degrees in Creative Writing or Poetry. This award is open to Masters students studying for […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to open the call for submissions to the 2024 Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award. The Travel Award was established to assist poets in their creative development and specifically to help realise a project requiring travel within or outside Ireland and offers an award of £2,000 to do […]