The winner of this year’s Irish Times Poetry Now award is Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin for The Mother House, published by Gallery Press. Reading them expands our understanding, they remind us of what poetry can do in terms of words and ideas. As a young poet Ní Chuilleanáin won The Irish Times Poetry award in 1966. The award was jointly established by The Irish Times and the Poetry Now Festival which is now part of the annual Mountains to Sea dlr book festival which is funded and supported by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. Last year’s winning collection was Derek Mahon’s Against the Clock (Gallery Press).

Source: The Irish Times March 28, 2020 06:00 UTC