John Montague is to be made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur after his name was included on the French government’s annual Bastille Day honours list.

The July/August issue of Poetry Ireland News is available for perusal click here for essays, news, readings, competitions, festivals and more.

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was announced as the winner of the international prize in the tenth annual Griffin Poetry Prize . The award, for her book The Sun-Fish, is worth $65,000.

Canadian, Karen Solie was awarded the Canadian prize, also worth $65,000, for her book Pigeon.

The Annual Griffin Poetry Prize is the second largest award for literature in the world.

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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin has previously won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Irish Times Award for Poetry, and the O’Shaughnessy Award of the Irish-American Cultural Institute and is a former Poetry Ireland Review editor.

Poetry Ireland are delighted to announce the Border Crossings Project , offering the opportunity to apply for funding for a one-off visit, or residency by a writer or storyteller to primary and post-primary schools in the ten counties on either side of the border: Armagh, Cavan, Derry Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Louth, Monaghan, and Tyrone.

Applications are now being accepted - for more details click here.