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Writers > Feature Articles: I Live in Michael Hartnett

…directly [Michael Hartman] from Paula Meehan’s poem ‘Hagiography’. Meehan describes the moment of seeing an estate named in Michael Hartnett’s honour: ‘Very aboriginal to be beneath a sign at the brand new estate: / Address – Michael Hartnett Close, Newcastle West.’ The poem goes on to recount the reply received… read more

General News: Awardees of the 2021 Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award are announced

General News: Vital Signs, a collection of powerful and courageous responses to the human experience of illness

Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing Edited by Martin Dyar With a foreword by President Michael D. Higgins. read more

General News: Trumpet Issue 9 and Poetry Ireland Review 132 now available from Poetry Ireland

General News: Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award 2023

Poetry Ireland in association with Trinity College Dublin and Stanford University, USA are delighted to announce the second Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award. read more

General News: Words at Wilton Park

New six-week programme at Living Canvas showcases the best of Arts and Literature read more

Other Publications

…Devitt, Roisin Kelly, Sophie Meehan, Manuela Moser, Padraig Regan and Ben Simmons. Available as an ebook at £0.99 Buy now for Kindle Rear-View Mirror Poems inspired by the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service. Commissioned by Paul Muldoon with poems by Frank Ormsby, Emma Must, Paul Muldoon, Medbh McGuckian, Nick Laird, Seamus… read more

General News: Poems for When You Can’t Find the Words - new collection of poetry from the Irish Hospice Foundation

Poems for When You Can’t Find the Words is a comforting collection of poetry from the Irish Hospice Foundation which offers intimate verse of honesty, candour and solidarity to patients, carers and the bereaved alike. Readers will find comfort in the penned reflections of death, grief, loss and love that… read more

Writers > Feature Articles: 2007: The Year in Review

…Carol Ann Duffy and Paula Meehan, among others, it would have been wonderful to follow up with a reading by this American master poet. Ah well, man (and woman) proposes… Maurice Scully: In September the great Bill Griffiths died suddenly in his late fifties. He was one of the most… read more

Writers > Feature Articles: Take Two

…Louis MacNeice, Derek Mahon, Paula Meehan, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Seán Ó Ríordáin and WB Yeats. As a testament to the riches remaining in the storehouse of Irish poetry, Trumpet asked a number of randomly-selected poets and civilians to nominate two poems from two poets who don’t appear on the shortlist.… read more