Poetry Competition Rules
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The winner of this year’s award will receive €1,000. Certificates will be awarded to runners up in the competition. |
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The award is open to poets, born in the island of Ireland, or of Irish nationality, or long term resident in Ireland. Manuscripts accepted for publication shall be eligible ONLY if the resulting collection of poems is NOT published before the judges’ decision is announced. |
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No previous outright winner shall be eligible to enter again. |
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The collection of poems in English must be original and consist of 20 poems. Individual poems should not be more than 40 lines. |
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The only works eligible are unpublished or magazine published work. |
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Two typed copies of the collection must be submitted with an entry form. |
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The author’s name should appear only on the entry form below and not on the typed copies. |
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The Patrick Kavanagh Society does not return manuscripts entered. |
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Patrick Kavanagh Society reserves the right to arrange with the poet a reading from their award winning poetry at the Annual Kavanagh Commemoration at Inniskeen on Friday 26th November 2010. |
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The entry fee is €25. |
The closing date for entries is Friday, 24th September 2010.
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 PRESS RELEASE - KAVANAGH PRIZE WINNER
The winner of the 2009 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Prize is Martin Dyar.
Born in 1976, Dyar grew up in Swinford in County Mayo. He has worked as a special needs teacher, a teacher of creative writing, and as a lecturer in medical ethics. He holds a PhD in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin.
In 2001 he won the Strokestown International Poetry Award 2001 and in 2007 the Raftery Award. His play about the life and work of Thomas Moore, entitled Harp of My Country, was performed at the National Concert Hall in 2004.
The €1,000 prize was presented by Peter Murphy, Chairman, Patrick Kavanagh Society at the Patrick
Kavanagh Centre in Inniskeen, Co.Monaghan on Friday, 27th November.
Joint second prize winners were Teresa Lally, of Inchicore, Dublin and Shirley McClure, of Bray, Co Wicklow. Michael Farry, of Trim, Co. Meath and Justin McCarthy, of Cloughboley, Co. Sligo were given Special Commendations.
The judge was the poet, novelist, screenwriter and publisher of the Duras Press, Brian Lynch. He described Dyar as ‘a new and original voice in Irish writing, an exciting poet at the beginning of what is bound to be a big career’.
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