The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to open the call for submissions to the 2025 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 […]

The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to open the call for submissions to the 2025 Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award. Now in its sixth 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 […]

With deep respect and admiration, the Trustees of the Ireland Chair of Poetry would like to share the Eulogy of Professor Michael Longley, whose passing marks the loss of a truly remarkable voice in literature.   Delivered by Professor Fran Brearton at All Souls Church, Belfast, on 1st February 2025, this tribute reflects on Michael Longley’s […]

The Trustees of the Ireland Chair of Poetry would like to congratulate the Ireland Professor of Poetry Paul Muldoon on being conferred the honour of Saoi of Aosdána by President Michael D Higgins.   President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins presided at a ceremony on Thursday 6th February 2025, to mark the election of the […]

Professor Paul Muldoon will complete his term as Ireland Professor of Poetry in October 2025 and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust now invites nominations to fill this prestigious role. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, Queen’s […]

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 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 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 […]