Poetry Now Award | |
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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 |
Official website | www.poetrynow.ie |
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.
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Winner: Seamus Heaney, for Human Chain.[2]
Shortlist:
Judges: Brian Lynch (poet, novelist, and screen writer), Leanne O'Sullivan (poet), and Borbála Faragó (lecturer and critic).[1]
Winner: Sinéad Morrissey, for Through the Square Window.[4]
Shortlist:
Judges: John F. Deane, Alan Gillis, and Maria Johnston.[5]
Winner: Derek Mahon, for Life on Earth.[6][7]
Shortlist:
Judges: Kit Fryatt, Sean O'Brien, and Joseph Woods.[8][9]
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]
Winner: Seamus Heaney, for District and Circle.[2][17]
Shortlist:
Judges: Eileen Battersby, Niall MacMonagle, and Maurice Riordan.[19]
Winner: Derek Mahon, for Harbour Lights.[7][20]
Shortlist:
Judges: Patrick Crotty, Gerard Fanning, and Fiona Sampson.[21]
Winner: Dorothy Molloy, for Hare Soup, awarded posthumously (she died in January 2004) for her début collection.[22][23]
Shortlist:
Judges: Simon Armitage, Selina Guinness, and Colm Tóibín.[25]
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