Poetry Ireland

Events A new collection of Irish fiction by writers from Northern Ireland will be launched in the Ulster Museum on Monday 3rd October. The collection, entitled The Glass Shore, is edited by Sinead Gleeson, the presenter of the Book…

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, It's Lit Review time. Events The festival formerly known as the Frank O'Connor Short Story Festival will begin on the 7th of September. The event is…

It's February. We did it! We're past St. Brigid's Day, out of the winter woods and officially on the road to Spring. Brrr. But also - Hurrah! With the grand long stretch this brings in the evenings (Um, it's about 15 minutes - Ed.), you'll…

It's December and we're heading full tilt to the end of the year and the frenetic celebrations of A CERTAIN EVENT. The good news is that there are still little pockets of poetic calm to be found out there in the big wide world, even in…

The clocks have gone back, the central heating's on and you've just recovered from the Halloween nom-noms sugar-induced coma. Hello... it must be time for November Poetrybeat! Winter is, indeed, coming. But that's no reason to go into…

James Conor Patterson is 26 and from Newry, Co. Down. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Abridged, The Bohemyth, Cyphers, Irish Left Review, Magma, The Moth, New Welsh Review, New Statesman, The Open Ear, The Penny Dreadful, Poetry…

Michael Naghten Shanks is the editor of online literary journal The Bohemyth. His own writing has featured or is forthcoming in various publications, including gorse, The Penny Dreadful, New Irish Writing, Southword, 3:AM and The Quietus.…

Rosamund Taylor is from Dublin, but lived and worked in Edinburgh for five years. In 2015 she was chosen to take part in the Poetry Introductions series run by Poetry Ireland, and gave a reading as part of the Dublin International…

Elaine Cosgrove was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series 2015. Recently, she read at the New Writers's Salon as part of Listowel Writers' Week. Her work was 'highly commended' in the 2014 Gregory O'Donoghue International…

Julie Morrissy is a poet from Dublin currently living in her home city after spending a number of years living in Canada and the USA. Her manuscript The Foehn Wind is shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize 2015 in the UK. She has been…