Now in its third year, the €5,000 Piggot Poetry prize is generously sponsored by Mark Pigott KBE and is awarded for a published collection of poetry by an Irish poet. The adjudicators Gillian Clarke and Christopher Reid have announced this year’s winner: There Now – Eamon Grennan Shortlisted were The Boys of […]
Gallery Authors at Listowel Writers’ Week: 1 – 5 June
Pigott Poetry Prize The winner of the 2016 Pigott Poetry Prize will be announced at the festival Opening Ceremony on Wednesday 1st June 2016 in The Listowel Arms Hotel Shortlisted collections are: There Now – Eamon Grennan (Gallery Books) The Boys of Bluehill – Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Gallery Books) Geis – Caitríona O’Reilly (Bloodaxe Books) Free Admission […]
Poetry Now Award – 12 March 2016
The Irish Times / Poetry Now Award 12.30pm, Saturday March 12th Venue: dlr LexIcon, The Studio Cost: Free Event – No Booking Required The Irish Times/Poetry Now Award is presented annually to the author of the best collection of poems published in English by an Irish poet in the previous year. The winner will […]
Irish Times/Poetry Now Award Shortlist 2016
We’re delighted to see Medbh McGuckian (Blaris Moor) and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (The Boys of Bluehill) on this years Irish Times/Poetry Now shortlist. Congratulations also to the other poets whose collections were selected: John F Deane, for Semibreve (Carcanet Press ), Doireann Ní Ghríofa, for Clasp (Dedalus Press); and Caitríona O’Reilly, for Geis (Bloodaxe Books). This year’s winner will […]
