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

Paul is from Belfast and lives in Clonakilty. He was awarded the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize by Carol Ann Duffy. Other poetry awards include first prizes in The Moth International, the Nottingham Open ...

Chris Agee is the editor and publisher of Irish Pages and The Irish Pages Press. His last book was Trump Rant (2021), “a poetic work of non-fiction”; and he is working on his fifth collection of poems ...

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

Clare is a Kildare poet originally from Westmeath. She achieved first place in Poetry Ireland /Trócaire unpublished poet ...

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 Wicklow poet Jane Clarke. Born in 1961, Jane grew up on a farm in the west of ...

Dundalk IT are looking forward to a special lunchtime concert on Thursday 1 May, which will feature performances by the DkIT ...

LUNENBURG — Storyteller, singer, and harper Kate Chadbourne is excited to celebrate spring and April Poetry Month with traditional Irish poems set to music, stories that extol cleverness and ...