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: A Commemorative Anthology from the Ireland Chair of Poetry Available to Order
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 […]
Manuela Moser announced as winner of the Ireland Chair of Poetry 2020 Travel Award
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 […]
Ireland Chair of Poetry Announce Winners of the 2020 Student Award
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 […]
Ireland Chair of Poetry Opens Call for Submissions to Special Commemorative Anthology
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 […]
Professor Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin wins 2020 Irish Times Poetry Now award
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 […]
Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust opens call for 2020 Travel Award
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, […]
Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust opens call for 2020 Student Award
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 […]
The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins has announced Frank Ormsby as the next Ireland Professor of Poetry
Frank Ormsby was announced as the next Ireland Professor of Poetry, by President Michael D Higgins at a reception in Queens University Belfast. Ormsby will be the eighth Irish Professor of Poetry, taking over from its current holder, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, at the end of October until November 2022. Ormsby said of his appointment: “the […]
Winners of inaugural Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Prize
The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust is delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 Student Prize. The Trustees initiated the prize this year in line with their focus on encouraging the writing of poetry within the three Universities who support the Trust. The Trustees, together with the current Ireland Professor of Poetry Eiléan Ní […]