The WB Yeats Society of NY has announced six recipients of its 2025 Yeats Poetry Prize, the 28th year of the international competition, open to poets of all ages from anywhere in the world. Founded in 1990, the society is dedicated to the legacy of the world-famous Irish poet and Nobel Laureate. First Prize: “Looming Light” by Elly Katz, New
» Read more$1,000 First Prize, $500 Second Prize, Honorable Mentions Deadline: February 1st The prizes and publication of the winning poems are given annually by the WB Yeats Society of NY. The winners also receive a two-year membership in the society and are invited to read their winning entries at a ceremony in New York City during April (Poetry Month). Poet January
» Read moreIn her conversation with Lucy Collins, Victoria Kennefick discusses her most recent poetry collection Egg/Shell (2024). She talks about the changes in her creative practice occasioned by events in her life and how these have produced a collection that defies containment; how writing poetry has helped her to capture the immediacy of these difficult experiences and to process them over time. She
» Read moreThe 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
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