For Terry McDonagh, poetry is not about pomp or prestige, but about connection - between poet and reader, between speaker and ...

Why do we turn to poetry? Ask a hundred people and you'll get a hundred answers. Still, the underlying thread of truth is ...

As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's ...

Paul is from Belfast and lives in Clonakilty. He was awarded the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize by Carol Ann Duffy. Other poetry ...

Seamus Heaney was born on this day, April 13, 1939, in Castledawson in Co Derry. What better way to celebrate the famous Irish poet's life than by revisiting his "When All The Others Were Away at ...

Ireland is being represented at the multilingual Printemps des Poètes-Luxembourg Poetry Festival for the first time by ...

Roscommon poet, Jane Clarke will represent Ireland at the Spring Festival of Poetry in Luxembourg this weekend, April 25th – ...

A number of iconic Galway venues will be well versed for May Day after Poetry Ireland announced the recipients of the Bright ...