The first event in the new Poetry Beyond the Page series took place on September 26, 2024. The Series features conversations with poets about their creative processes, their life trajectories, and many other conversations around poetic creation, translations and transculturations, belongings linked to the Irish tradition and beyond, as well as recitations of original texts accompanied by their translations into
» Read moreSymposium: Saturday January 25th, 2025Trinity College Dublin, Long Room HubEllen Orchard (TCD) & Dr. Míchéal McCann (QUB) With a decade since the thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, and the array of queer Irish writers greeted with new visibility and attention in anthologies like Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry (Lifeboat Press,2021) and Green Carnations, Glas Na Gile
» Read moreRevival Press is thrilled to announce, fresh off her performance at this year’s Glastonbury and Electric Picnic Festivals, the launch of spoken word poet and academic Lauren McNamara’s ‘Quarter Life Crisis’ — her debut collection of poems. The launch event will take place: Thursday, August 29, 2024, at 6:00 PM The Belltable, 69 O’Connell St., Limerick. Prof Eugene O’Brien of
» Read morePoetry from first principles (principia poetica) focuses on poets, poetry, the science of language and the language of science sourcing correspondences between DI and ID. ‘Intelligent Design’ (ID) is the scientific theory about an intelligent cause to life, the universe and ultimate reality. Divine Intelligence (DI) which is present in mysticism, theology, sacred texts, extrasensory experience, and supernatural discourse dominates writings of spiritual
» Read moreby Joseph M. Hassett | Lilliput Press This handsome volume presents more than twenty images of book covers, poems and other works that reflect Sligo’s presence in the work of W.B. Yeats and his family. Thoughtful reflections accompany the images, many of which are of first editions found in the ‘Yeats in Sligo’ collection at the Yeats Society. They invite
» Read moreIn his conversation with Alex Alonso and Jessica Bundschuh, Scott McKendry talks about and reads from his recently published poetry volume GUB. He discusses the new orthography he designed for his North Belfast accent in this volume; the importance of dialects and his research on dialect in Irish poetry; the balance between the serious subjects and the irreverent spirit of his
» Read moreCall for contributors Poetry off the Page is an online, international platform for anyone interested in the study and analysis of Anglophone spoken word and poetry performance from the 1960s to the present day. The ‘Poetry off the Page’ blog (https://poetryoffthepage.univie.ac.at/blog/) is dedicated to original poetry performance research, with a focus on theory and methodology. The PoP blog provides a
» Read moreIntersecting Practices and Traditions in British Poetry Performance CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Poetry Off the Page is the first, open access, peer reviewed collection to explore and promote a wide range of critical perspectives on recent developments in British and Irish poetry performance and spoken word theatre. The collection is committed to publishing innovative and critically informed research on all aspects
» Read moreThe 2024 international W.B. Yeats Poetry Prize is now open for submissions. Poet Judge: January Gill O’Neil. 1st prize $1,000, 2nd prize $500, plus honourable mentions. Ends Feb. 1, 2024. Winners announced in early March. https://yeats.submittable.com Poets of any age from anywhere in the world may enter the competition. There is no limit on submissions. Eligible poems must be in English
» Read moreRegistration now open for the All Borders Blur Conference – November 11 & 12, London & Virtual All Borders Blur: Mapping Intersections and Genre Crossings in UK Spoken-Word Poetries Since 1965 is a two-day academic conference co-organised by the FWF/ERC-funded project Poetry Off the Page together with Queen Mary University of London and the University of Vienna. The conference investigates
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