Literature is haunted by that which covers two-thirds of our planet, the sea. Its myths and marine life offer inexhaustible inspiration for writers. This course, led by Paul Henry and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, delights in the sea’s influence on poetry and considers different approaches to reflecting its pervading presence in our …
The West Cork Literary Festival features workshops, readings, seminars, family events and more. Griffin Poetry Prize winner Anne Carson is among the writers attending this year's festival. Learn more here.
Uncover your creativity at a poetry workshop with the writer of incisive, intimate poetry collection The Perseverance (PBS Winter Choice 2018). Raymond Antrobus is the winner of the 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. His poems have been published in Poetry, Poetry Review and the New Statesman, and he is the recipient …
Farming districts, factory villages, ghost towns, bedroom communities, alternative societies, touristic hamlets, and shtetls: Poetry is Dead wants your poems and creative nonfiction on the subject of small town life. It isn’t necessary to have grown up in a small town to have an experience of one. Whether it be …
Since 2002 the international ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival has been taking place every two years. In 2019, the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is inviting entries for its first competition to find the best poetry films from Germany! Eligible for entry are short films (co-) produced in Germany in or after …