The shortlist for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2014 is announced!!
Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival is delighted to announce the official shortlist for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, awarded annually at the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival
The shortlist for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2014 is:
Tara Bergin This is Yarrow (Carcanet), Nick Laird Go Giants (Faber & Faber), Sinéad Morrissey Parallex (Carcanet), Conor O'Callaghan The Sun King (Gallery Press) and Billy Ramsell The Architect's Dream of Winter (Dedalus Press). The Irish Times Poetry Now Award is presented annually to the author of the best collection of poems in English published by an Irish poet in the previous year. The Award is made possible by the generous support of The Irish Times and will be presented at the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival (#M2C2014) on Saturday 13th September 2014. Our judges for this year's award are Katie Donovan, Nessa O'Mahony and Chris Morash.
Tara Bergin was born and grew up in Dublin. She moved to England in 2002. In 2012 she completed her PhD research at Newcastle University on Ted Hughes’s translations of János Pilinszky. Her poetry was published in the bestselling Carcanet anthology New Poetries V and her debut collection This is Yarrow was published last year.
Nick Laird was born in 1975 in Co. Tyrone and studied English at the University of Cambridge, where he won the Quiller-Couch Award for creative writing. His debut collection, To a Fault (2005), won the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize; his second, On Purpose (2007), the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He is the author of two novels and lives in London. Photo credit: Mark Pringle
Sinéad Morrissey was born in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. She read English and German at Trinity College, Dublin, from which she took her PhD in 2003. Her five collections are There Was Fire in Vancouver(1996), Between Here and There (2002), The State of the Prisons (2005), Through the Square Window (2009) and the T S Eliot Prize-winning Parallax(2013) all of which are published by Carcanet Press. She has lived in Germany, Japan and New Zealand and now lectures in creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University, Belfast. She is Belfast's inaugural Poet Laureate. Photo credit: Sam Russica
Conor O’Callaghan was born in Newry, County Down, in 1968, and grew up in Dundalk. The Gallery Press has published his four collections. The History of Rain, published in 1993, was shortlisted for the Forward ‘Best First Collection’ Prize and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. Fiction(2005) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Sun King was published in 2013. He has been co-holder of the Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies at Villanova University and from 2005-2010 was poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He has also been director of the annual Poetry Now Festival in Dublin (2000-2003). Photo credit: Eve O'Callaghan
Billy Ramsell was born in Cork in 1977 and educated at the North Monastery and UCC. Complicated Pleasures, his first collection, was published by the Dedalus Press in 2007. Well known for his spirited, memorable performances, he has read at poetry festival as far afield as San Francisco and Shanghai. He holds the Chair of Ireland Bursary for 2013 and has been shortlisted for several other prizes. He edits the Irish section of the Poetry International website and co-runs an educational publishing company. Photo credit: John Minihan
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