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The Irish Times
Poetry Now Award 2008
DLR Poetry Now – International Poetry Festival
Thursday 3rd – Sunday 6th April 2008
The Irish Times Poetry Now Award is presented annually to the author of the best single volume of poems published by an Irish poet or an Irish publisher in the previous year.
The shortlist of 5 titles will be announced in January 2008 and the winner will be announced at the DLR Poetry Now Festival which takes place from the 3rd – 6th April 2008. The prize-winner will receive €5000.
The judges for The Irish Times DLR Poetry Now Award 2008 are Philip Coleman, Sasha Dugdale and William Wall.
Philip Coleman is a lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where he is also director of the MPhil in Literatures of the Americas. A collection of essays entitled “After Thirty Falls”: New Essays on John Berryman was published this year and his book-length study of Berryman will be published by UCD Press in 2008.
Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. Her two collections Notebook (2000) and The Estate (2003) were published by Carcanet/Oxford Poets and she won an Eric Gregory Award for poems from the first collection. Her new translations of the poet Elena Shvarts Bird Song on the Seabed will published by Bloodaxe in Spring 2008.
William Wall is a novelist, poet and short-story writer. He has published two collections of poetry, most recently Fahrenheit Says Nothing To Me; four novels including This Is The Country which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2005 and No Paradiso (2006) a collection of short fiction.
"Since 2005 the Irish Times DLR Poetry Now Award has been a lens through which the rich and varied field of new poetry in Ireland has come into sharp and satisfying focus. This year's panel is comprised of a trio of brilliant readers and writers who have placed poetry and its complexities - and its pleasures - at the centre of their working and their thinking. Between them, I'm certain they'll produce a finely-tuned and a memorable shortlist, and a fitting and deserving final name."
Belinda McKeon Curator DLR Poetry Now
For more information and details on eligibility and entries please contact:
Carolyn Brown, Producer DLR Poetry Now
cbrown@dlrcoco.ie or (00 353 1) 271 9532
or Laura Larkin lauralarkin@dlrcoco.ie or (00 353 1) 271 9527
The Arts Office, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
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Thursday 8th November 2007
Hugh Leonard Writer’s Bursary awarded to Claire Keegan
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council announces Claire Keegan as the inaugural recipient of the Hugh Leonard Writer’s Bursary 2007. The first year of the award attracted a terrific response from mid-career writers in theatre, TV and film, fiction and non-fiction. The bursary of €10, 000 was awarded to Claire Keegan to recognise her exceptional talent as a writer and support her professional development at this time.
The bursary, launched by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in 2007, marks the special relationship between Hugh Leonard and his home-place of Dalkey and his significant contribution to theatre, TV and film both in Ireland and abroad. The Hugh Leonard Writer’s Bursary will be made available on a bi-annual basis to a mid-career writer. In this, its first year, Claire Keegan’s outstanding ability as a writer has set the bar high for future years.
Carolyn Brown, Acting Arts Officer, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council comments ‘In this its inaugural year, the Arts Office of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is delighted that a writer of such exciting talent as Claire Keegan has been awarded the Hugh Leonard Writer’s Bursary and I look forward with eager anticipation to reading the work that Claire will create with the support of this bursary’.
Claire Keegan grew up on a farm on the Wicklow-Wexford border. At the age of seventeen she travelled to New Orleans to study English and Political Science at Loyola University, where she earned an MA, an M.Phil. Her short stories have won numerous awards including The William Trevor Prize, The Olive Cook Award, The Martin Healy Prize, The Tom Gallon Award, The Francis MacManus Award, The Kilkenny Prize, The McCauley Fellowship and The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. She was also a Wingate scholar. Claire’s debut, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Her second book, Walk the Blue Fields, was published in May 2007. Both books are published by Faber & Faber. In addition Claire was writer-in-residence at DCU, UCC and UCD. She currently lives and works in Wexford.
For further information of The Hugh Leonard Writer’s Bursary please contact Claire Power at the Arts Office, Dún-Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council t. 01 271 9530 or e. cpower@dlrcoco.ie
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The Rupert and Eithne Strong Award
DLR Poetry Now 2008
DLR Poetry Now – International Poetry Festival
Thursday 3rd – Sunday 6th April 2008
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and Poetry Now Festival are pleased to announce that Louis de Paor will act as the judge for the 2008 Rupert and Eithne Strong Award.
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and DLR Poetry Now Festival are delighted to continue their association with The Rupert and Eithne Strong Award. The award is made possible by the generous support of the Strong family in memory of the lives and work of Rupert and Eithne Strong. First collections published in English or Irish by Irish presses or by Irish writers in 2007 are eligible, and the winner will be announced at the Strong Reading which will take place at the DLR Poetry Now Festival.
Louis de Paor is one of Ireland’s foremost poets in the Irish language. He has been involved with the contemporary renaissance of poetry in Irish since 1980 when he was first published in the poetry journal Innti. Since then his collections which include Aimsir Bhreicneach/Freckled Weather, The Gaelic Hit Factory,and Cúpla Siamach an Ama have received critical and public acclaim.
“Every year, the Strong Award acts as a prism for the diverse and exciting output of emerging Irish poets and in 2008 we are privileged to have the poet and critic Louis de Paor as our judge.”
Belinda McKeon Curator DLR Poetry Now
For more information and details on eligibility and entries please contact:
Carolyn Brown, Producer DLR Poetry Now
cbrown@dlrcoco.ie or (00 353 1) 271 9532
or Laura Larkin lauralarkin@dlrcoco.ie or (00 353 1) 271 952
The Arts Office, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
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