Competition judge
and Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust Writer-In-Residence,
and Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust Writer-In-Residence,
Kevin Higgins
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 2014 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,
Michael Longley, Vona Groarke, Jane Hirschfield, 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 her of his winning poem at the launch of the 2014
Poems For Patience at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature in April
2014.
*the
winner will be provided with accommodation in Galway for one night during the
2014 Cúirt International Festival of Literature
*the
winner will be given a copy of their poem printed as a Poems 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 €22.50 and so on.
Payment
should be made by cheque or postal order payable to Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust.
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, will be published by Salmon Poetry in 2014.