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 […]

The Ireland Chair of Poetry are delighted to welcome the Ireland Professor of Poetry Paul Muldoon to the Museum of Literature Ireland, St. Stephen’s Green, on February 1st 2024, for a reading of his recent poems. Tickets are available via the Museum of Literature Ireland website here

The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to welcome the Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paul Muldoon, back to Irish shores this coming Spring, 2024. Professor Paul Muldoon will be resident in Trinity College, Dublin, for the Spring 2024 semester, where he will host a series of events including his seminar series entitled How to Read […]

Ireland Professor of Poetry Paul Muldoon will read in the Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin on Thursday 2nd March at 19:30. The reading is free to attend but spaces are limited so registration is required. To register your place please click here. “To describe Paul Muldoon’s influence on contemporary poetry is like […]

Professor Paul Muldoon has been announced as the next Ireland Professor of Poetry at a small reception hosted by President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, in Áras an Uachtaráin. Professor Paul Muldoon will be the ninth Ireland Professor of Poetry, taking over from the current holder, Professor Frank Ormsby. The position will run until November […]

Professor Frank Ormsby will complete his term as Ireland Professor of Poetry in October 2022 and the Ireland Chair of Poetry 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 University […]