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Irish Times Poetry Now Award

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Poetry Now Award
Awarded for Best Irish poetry collection
Presented by The Irish Times
Host DLR Poetry Now Festival
Date March or April, annually
Location Dún Laoghaire
Country Ireland
Reward €5,000
First awarded 2005
Last awarded 2011
Currently held by Seamus Heaney
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The Poetry Now Award is an annual literary prize presented for the best single volume of poetry by an Irish poet. The €5,000 award is presented during the annual Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Poetry Now international poetry festival. The festival began in 1996 and the first Poetry Now Award was bestowed in 2005.[1] The award is sponsored by The Irish Times.

History[]

2011[]

Winner: Seamus Heaney, for Human Chain.[2]

Shortlist:

  • Sara Berkeley, The View from Here.
  • Ciarán Carson, Until Before After.
  • Dermot Healy, A Fool's Errand.
  • Seamus Heaney, Human Chain.
  • Paul Muldoon, Maggot.[1][3]

Judges: Brian Lynch (poet, novelist, and screen writer), Leanne O'Sullivan (poet), and Borbála Faragó (lecturer and critic).[1]


2010[]

Winner: Sinéad Morrissey, for Through the Square Window.[4]

Shortlist:

Judges: John F. Deane, Alan Gillis, and Maria Johnston.[5]


2009[]

Winner: Derek Mahon, for Life on Earth.[6][7]

Shortlist:

Judges: Kit Fryatt, Sean O'Brien, and Joseph Woods.[8][9]


2008[]

Winner: Harry Clifton, for Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994–2004.[8][10][11][12][13]

Shortlist:

Judges: Philip Coleman, Sasha Dugdale, and William Wall.[14][16]


2007[]

Winner: Seamus Heaney, for District and Circle.[2][17]

Shortlist:

Judges: Eileen Battersby, Niall MacMonagle, and Maurice Riordan.[19]


2006[]

Winner: Derek Mahon, for Harbour Lights.[7][20]

Shortlist:

Judges: Patrick Crotty, Gerard Fanning, and Fiona Sampson.[21]


2005[]

Winner: Dorothy Molloy, for Hare Soup, awarded posthumously (she died in January 2004) for her début collection.[22][23]

Shortlist:

  • Paul Durcan, The Art of Life.
  • Alan Gillis, Somebody Somewhere.
  • Medbh McGuckian, The Book of the Angel.
  • Dorothy Molloy, Hare Soup.
  • Peter Sirr, Nonetheless.[24]

Judges: Simon Armitage, Selina Guinness, and Colm Tóibín.[25]

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 DLR Poetry Now 2011 Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Retrieved: 2011-03-28.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Heaney wins 'Irish Times' poetry award Irish Times, 2011-03-26.
  3. ↑ Irish Times Poetry Now shortlist announced Irish Times, 2011-01-22.
  4. ↑ Sinead Morrissey wins €5,000 'Irish Times' Poetry Now award Irish Times, 2010-03-27.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 DLR Poetry Now 2010 Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Retrieved: 2011-03-28.
  6. ↑ Derek Mahon Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Retrieved: 2011-03-28.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Mahon wins 'Irish Times' poetry prize for new collection Irish Times, 2009-03-28.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 DLR Poetry Now 09 Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Retrieved: 2011-03-28.
  9. ↑ Poetry judges announced Irish Times, 2008-12-01.
  10. ↑ Harry Clifton wins Poetry Now award Irish Times, 2008-04-05.
  11. ↑ Irish Times Poetry Now shortlist announced Irish Times, 2011-01-22.
  12. ↑ Poetry needs to be protected from agendas - Clifton Irish Times, 2010-07-01.
  13. ↑ New chair is a poet in his prime Irish Times, 2010-07-01.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 DLR Poetry Now 08 Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Retrieved: 2011-03-28.
  15. ↑ 'The Irish Times' Poetry Now shortlist Irish Times, 2008-03-01.
  16. ↑ Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2008 Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. Retrieved: 2011-03-28.
  17. ↑ Heaney work a unanimous choice Irish Times, 2007-03-31.
  18. ↑ Poetry Now 2007 Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Retrieved: 2011-03-28.
  19. ↑ Irish Times Poetry Now shortlist Irish Times, 2007-02-02.
  20. ↑ Collection cited for 'wonderful flexibility and tonal command' Irish Times, 2006-03-24.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Shortlist for 'Irish Times' Poetry Now 2006 prize Irish Times, 2006-01-28.
  22. ↑ Late poet's work wins award Irish Times, 2005-04-01.
  23. ↑ Songs of a spirit's resilience Irish Times, 2006-03-11.
  24. ↑ New voices on poetry shortlist Irish Times, 2005-01-29.
  25. ↑ New poetry prize launched, Bookseller, Tom Holman, 2004-10-12.

External links[]

  • Poetry Now, website for the annual international poetry festival.

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