2012 iYeats poetry competition
The 2012 iYeats poetry competition will be officially launched on Yeats Day Wednesday 13th of June 2012.
This online national and international competition has quickly won a prestigious reputation for the calibre of both entrants and judges.
The prizegiving for the iYeats Poetry competition will take place after the 11.30am Summer School lecture on Wed 1st August.
The judges for this national and international online competition this year are Theo Dorgan and Paula Meehan.
Theo Dorgan was born in Cork in 1953; he has made his home in Dublin for many years.Poet, prose writer, editor and translator, he has also written scripts for film documentaries and worked as a presenter of literature programmes on radio and television for over 25 years.
Paula Meehan was born in 1955 in Dublin where she still lives. She has received many awards, including the Marten Toonder Award for Literature, The Butler Literary Award for Poetry, the Denis Devlin Memorial Award and the PPI Award for Radio Drama. She has published five collections of poetry, the most recent being Painting Rain, She has collaborated throughout her working life with dancers, visual artists and film makers.
View last year's winning poems here.
The Cat and the Moon - Children's Poet of the Year Competition 2012
Are you an 8-10 year old and a budding poet? If so..we want to know what you have to say!
WB Yeats, the very famous Irish poet and writer spent his childhood in Sligo and we know there are more fantastic poets in our schools in Sligo right now! So, we are running a poetry competition for 3rd and 4th class students. The name of the poem is The Cat and the Moon and it must be 5 lines long.
Closing date for entries is the 1st of June. Call the Box Office on 071 916 1518 for more information and for an application form or click here to download