Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking
entries again for its exciting annual poetry competition.
CRITERIA: poems entered in the competition should be
no more than 30 lines long. They must be the original work of the entrant.
Poems previously published in magazines or poetry collections are eligible.
Multiple entries are accepted; poets can enter as many poems as they wish.
PRIZE
*the winner will have her or his poem published and
displayed on the Arts Corridor of University Hospital Galway as part of the
2015 Poems For Patience. Poems For Patience is a long running series which over
the past decade has featured poems by leading Irish and international poets
such as Seamus Heaney, Philip Schultz, Jane Hirschfield, Michael Longley, Vona
Groarke, Tess Gallagher and many more. The poems after exhibition on the Arts
Corridor are then displayed in waiting areas throughout Galway University
Hospitals.
*the winner will be invited to read his or her
winning poem at the launch of the 2015 Poems For Patience at the Cúirt
International Festival of Literature in April 2015.
*the winner will be provided with accommodation in
Galway for one night during the 2015 Cúirt International Festival of Literature
*the winner will be given a copy of their poem
printed as a Poem for Patience poster
*the winner will be asked to submit six poems for
consideration for a Featured Reader at the Over The Edge: Open Reading series
in Galway City Library.
ENTRY FEE: to enter one poem the fee is €10. If you
enter two or more poems the entry fee is €7.50 per poem i.e. to enter two poems
it costs €15, to enter three poems €22.50 and so on.
Payment should be made by cheque or postal order
payable to Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust.
Entries should be sent by post to Margaret Flannery,
Arts Director, Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust, Galway University
Hospitals, University Hospital, Newcastle Road, Galway. Do not put your name on
the poems; please include your contact details on a separate sheet.
THE CLOSING DATE is Friday, March 13th 2015.
THE JUDGE: The competition judge is Kevin Higgins. Kevin Higgins is Writer-in-Residence with Galway University Hospitals
Arts Trust. He facilitates poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre; teaches
creative writing at Galway Technical Institute and on the Brothers of Charity
Away With Words programme. He is the poetry critic of the Galway Advertiser.
Kevin is co-organiser of Over The Edge literary events. His first collection of
poems The Boy With No Face was published by Salmon in February 2005 and was
short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award. His second collection, Time Gentlemen,
Please, was published in March 2008 by Salmon. His work also features in the
anthology Identity Parade – New British and Irish Poets (Ed Roddy Lumsden,
Bloodaxe, 2010). Frightening New Furniture is his third collection of poems and
was published in 2010 by Salmon Poetry. Mentioning The War, a collection of his
essays and reviews was published by Salmon this April. Kevin has read his work
at most of the major literary festivals in Ireland and at Arts Council and
Culture Ireland supported poetry events in Kansas City, USA (2006), Los
Angeles, USA (2007), London, UK (2007), New York, USA (2008), Athens, Greece
(2008); St. Louis, USA (2008), Chicago, USA (2009), Denver, USA (2010),
Washington D.C (2011), Huntington, West Virginia, USA (2011), Geelong,
Australia (2011), Canberra, Australia (2011), St. Louis, Missouri (2013),
Boston, Massachusetts (2013) & Amherst, Massachusetts (2013). His poetry
has been translated into Greek, Spanish, Italian, Japanese & Portuguese. Kevin’s
fourth collection of poetry, The Ghost In The Lobby, was published by Salmon
Poetry in 2014.
For further details: Tel: +353 (0)91 544979 Email: Margaret.Flannery@hse.ie
