A series focusing on emerging poets. The Introductions offer an exciting opportunity for talented, emerging poets to showcase their work at a reading and to work with an established, published poet in a workshop environment. Throughout the process the poets will be advised and directed in their work culminating in a reading to a live audience, which will be recorded and published on the Poetry Ireland website. The readings are usually held in early June.
Deadline for submissions for Introductions 2010 is Friday 18 December 2009.
Previous poets selected for the Introduction series include
- David Wheatley
- Enda Wyley
- Matt Kirkham
- Kevin Kiely
- Paul Grattan
- Pat Boran
- Dave Lordan
- Nessa O'Mahony
How to apply
Submissions are invited each year. The criteria for entry is poets who have already had poems published in reputable journals and are working towards or have just completed a first collection.
To enter
- A short biography and covering letter accompanied by a selection of poems is requested.
- Poems may be previously published or unpublished.
- Poets submitting must have had a body of work published in journals or magazines.
Applications should be marked Introductions and sent to Poetry Ireland, No. 2 Proud's Lane, off St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2.
Selected applicants are usually informed within two months and, depending on the number of submissions, approximately 15 poets are selected each year.