The trustees of the Ireland Chair of Poetry are delighted to announce that Nicholas McLachlan is the recipient of the 2019 Ireland Chair of Poetry bursary. The poet was nominated by Ireland Professor of Poetry, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, selected as the recipient for the final year of her term, and the nomination was welcomed and […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to open the call for submissions to the 2021 Ireland Chair of Poetry Project Awards. The Project Awards have been established in order to assist poets in their creative development and specifically to help realise projects of imagination. A total of two prizes will be awarded, should sufficient […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to open the call for submissions to the 2021 Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award. Now in its third year the award was created to encourage and assist students who are pursuing Masters degrees in Creative Writing or in Poetry. This award is open to Masters students studying […]
Hold Open the Door is a fascinating exploration of the meaning of influence and originality. It takes us to the places poetry comes from, places where invisible voices whang and whizz through the air, the wild exchanges between readers, writers, collaborators across the arts. Through the intimacy of formal teaching, the obliquity of the chance […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust are delighted to announce that Manuela Moser will be the fourth recipient of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award. Commenting on this year’s Travel Award the adjudication panel, comprised of the Trustees together with the current Ireland Chair of Poetry, Professor Frank Ormsby, had this to say: “We […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 Student Award. Now in its second year, the Student Award is an initiative to encourage the writing of poetry within the three Universities who support the Trust. Commenting on the submissions received for the 2020 Student Award, the adjudication panel, comprised […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to be able to invite submissions to an anthology of original poems, essays and reflections by emerging poets in response to the work of creative mentors, to celebrate the work of the Ireland Chair of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998, to commemorate the […]
The winner of this year’s Irish Times Poetry Now award is Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin, former Ireland Chair of Poetry. Ní Chuilleanáin received the award for her the work of her tenth collection The Mother House, published by Gallery Press. Ní Chuilleanáin had been due to be presented with the €2,000 prize at the Mountains to Sea festival however […]
Journeys outside of Ireland form an important part of my work, so the Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award has been a godsend in supporting my work. With this funding I was able to take up a writer-in-residence position with RaumArs – an artist association in Rauma, Finland, where I worked on my current project, […]
The generous recognition by the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust opened the door to a world of wisdom, warmth and support. As an international student in Ireland, I often questioned my right to write from — and in — this place, this tradition. The award shored up my belief in my self and gifted me […]