tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50803798539495287692024-02-19T17:14:37.835+00:00Trim Poetry FestivalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-76185133934102320102022-02-28T08:30:00.002+00:002022-02-28T08:32:09.892+00:00Result - Trim Poetry Competiton 2022<p> Our Judge, Patrick Lodge, has chosen the winners from the shortlist of ten.</p><p>Winner: Funeral Music by Niamh Twomey<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>Runners-Up:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My Grandmother lays out the Dead by Caroline Gilfillan<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p> Listening to the Grain by Gerard Walsh</p><p>Congratulations to the winner and runners-up, thanks to all who entered and a special thank you to our judge, Patrick Lodge.</p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-29710835057903608452022-02-18T10:54:00.001+00:002022-02-18T10:54:51.857+00:00Shortlist - Trim Poetry Competition 2022<p>This year's judge, Patrick Lodge, has chosen the following ten poems as the shortlist. They are in alphabetical order. The winner and two runners-up will be announced soon. Thanks to all those who entered the competition and well done to those whose poems are here.</p><div style="text-align: left;">chinatown pt.2 <br />Exile <br />Funeral Music <br />Grey Gulls Circled <br />Jenny <br />Listening to the Grain <br />My Grandmother Lays out the Dead <br />Ode to my Vocation<br />Turbary Rites <br />Uber Ride at Christmas</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-86409050529631066852022-02-13T09:35:00.002+00:002022-02-13T09:35:32.003+00:00Trim Poetry Competition 2022<p> The shortlist of ten poems in the Trim Poetry Competiton will be announced before the end of February 2022 and the winner and two runners-up soon afterwards.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-27049592174128276742021-10-05T16:03:00.009+01:002021-12-02T17:09:25.390+00:00Trim Poetry Competition 2021-22<p>In view of the current situation as regards Covid-19 it has been decided to cancel Trim Poetry Festival 2022. Trim Poetry Competition, which is currently accepting entries, will however go ahead as planned and<b> the closing date for the competition has been extended to 31 December 2021.</b></p><p><u>Competition Rules</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Entries are only accepted online by email to this address:
trimpoetry@gmail.com</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Competitors will pay by PayPal on this blog. Entry
Fee: 5 euro per poem or 10 euro for three poems.</p><p class="MsoNormal">You can also send an entry fee by your own PayPal account to trimpoetry@gmail.com</p><p class="MsoNormal">Please type Trim Poetry Competition in the subject line of
the email.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The body of the email must include the PayPal transaction
number, the entrant's name, address, phone number, and title/titles of the
entered poems.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The poem/poems must be attached as a single Word document.
The poems should be in Times New Roman, 12 point, single spacing and must not
exceed 50 lines (excluding title and stanza breaks). The name of the entrant
must not appear on the poems themselves. </p><p class="MsoNormal">All poems must be the original work of the entrant, written
in English. Poems must not have been previously published, self-published,
published online in any format, or broadcast. Entrants must be 18 years or
over.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All poems are judged completely anonymously, and judges read
all entries. The judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence can be
entered into regarding those decisions. Current members of Boyne Writers Group
are not eligible to enter.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The prize for the winner is 500 euro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two runners-up will receive 100 euro each. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The judge is poet Patrick Lodge.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The judges’ shortlist of ten will be announced in February
2022 and included on this blog. Shortlisted poets only will be notified by
email. The prize
winners will be announced in March 2022. It is hoped to have an online presentation at that stage, details later. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Submission of a poem implies the competitor’s acceptance of the conditions set out above.</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-21246330971439630722021-03-13T14:55:00.005+00:002021-03-14T14:48:28.619+00:00Trim Poetry Festival 2021 - Saturday 13 March.<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This was the third annual Trim Poetry Festival and the second virtual festival. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #100766; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Thanks to all the performers and participants at Saturday's Trim Poetry Festival. We look forward to seeing some of you in person in Trim at next year's festival on the week-end of 11/12 March 2022. </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #100766; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">7pm: Poetry Reading by Orla Fay from her chapbook “Drawn to the Light”.</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #100766; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Orla Fay, a member of Boyne Writers, edits Drawn to the Light Press, a new online magazine of poetry. Her chapbook Drawn to the Light was published in October 2020, and her first full collection is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. She edited Boyne Berries for six years. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #100766; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l-BW-fWlWMI" width="420"></iframe></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #100766; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6749320883566325989" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">6pm: Poetry Reading by Jean O’Brien.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4QTc7N1eB5I" width="420"></iframe>
</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">4pm: Results of Trim Poetry Competition 2021: </span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Introduction and comments by the judge, Jean O’Brien, with r</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36pt;">eadings by the winner, the runners up and some of the shortlisted poets.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C59DIVtdRI4" width="420"></iframe>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">3pm: Readings by members of Boyne Writers Group.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OLRy7f6Bn7Y" width="420"></iframe>
</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A Reminder that most of the events of Festival 2020 are still available to view below on this blog.</span></b></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-67493208835663259892021-02-02T08:04:00.010+00:002021-03-12T13:17:07.948+00:00Trim Poetry Festival 2021 : Saturday 13 March.<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
is the third annual Trim Poetry Festival and the second virtual festival. As
last year it will be a mixture of live Zoom events and pre-recorded videos on
YouTube with links here and on Facebook.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Here
is the programme.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">10am: Live Online
Poetry Workshop by Anne Tannam.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anne Tannam is a Dublin poet with
two published collections: Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor (Salmon
Poetry 2017) and Take This Life (WordOnTheStreet 2011). Her third, Twenty-six
Letters of a New Alphabet, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry this summer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Workshop will take place on Zoom starting at 10 am on Saturday 13 March. The cost is 20 Euro and it is limited to 15 participants. Book using the PayPay button on the right..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">3pm: Readings by
members of Boyne Writers Group.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">4pm: Results of Trim
Poetry Competition 2021:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Introduction and Comments by the judge, Jean
O’Brien. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Readings by the
winner, the runners up and some of the shortlisted poets.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">6pm: Poetry
Reading by Jean O’Brien. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jean O’Brien has five poetry collections to her
name; The Shadow Keeper (1997), Dangerous Dresses (2005), Lovely Legs (2009), Merman (2012) and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 36pt;">Fish On A Bicycle: New & Selected Poems (2016 & 2018)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: yes; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Her Awards include the Arvon International Poetry
Award, and the Fish International Poetry Award. She holds an M. Phil in
Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin, and tutors in Creative Writing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">7pm: Poetry
Reading by Orla Fay from her chapbook “Drawn to the Light”.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Orla Fay, a member of Boyne Writers, edits Drawn to the Light Press, a new online magazine of poetry. Her chapbook Drawn to the Light was published in October 2020, and her first full collection is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. She edited Boyne Berries for six years. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">8pm: Poetry Open
Mic on Zoom with Rachel Coventry as MC.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Five minutes each. Use this link to join the Zoom Opem Mic. The room opens at 7.45pm and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">people can register to read by adding their names to the chat in Zoom. Readers will be chosen on a first come basis. Maximum five minutes each.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5340756676" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 36pt;">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5340756676</a><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> : </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-indent: 36pt;">Meeting ID: 534 075 6676</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rachel Coventry’s poetry has appeared in many journals including Poetry Ireland Review, The SHop, Cyphers, The Honest Ulsterman and The Stony Thursday Book. She has just completed a PhD on Heidegger’s poetics at NUIG. Her debut collection, Afternoon Drinking at the Jolly Butchers, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2018.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
Reminder that most of the events of Festival 2020 are still available to view
below on this blog.</span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-83888743556612551542021-01-24T10:27:00.000+00:002021-01-24T10:27:56.713+00:00Trim Poetry Competition 2021 - Results<p>Here is the result of the Trim Poetry Competition 2021.</p><p><b>Winner:</b></p><p>to make a doll <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Angus Strachan<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>England<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><b>Runners-Up:</b></p><p>Echolocation<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Marian Oxley<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>England<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>The Invisible House <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Brian Kirk<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dublin<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>Congratulation to those poets, to those who are listed in the short and long lists below and thanks to all who entered. We had a total of 360 entries this year.</p><p>A special thanks to our judge, Jean O’Brien, for carrying out her task in such an efficient, professional manner.</p><p>We hope to have a virtual prize-giving reading at our virtual Trim Poetry Festival 2021 in mid-March. More details later.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-72947224349574345002021-01-17T09:14:00.006+00:002021-01-17T09:14:55.737+00:00Trim Poetry Competition Shortlist 2021<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
is the short list of ten in alphabetical order. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The winner and two runners-up will be revealed on Sunday next 24 January. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Echolocation Marian Oxley England </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">hunter, gatherer Mary Mulholland England </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In the Republic of Nuns Karen McDonnell Clare </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Je ne regrette rien Siobhán Flynn Dublin </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Normal People Frank Murphy Meath </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Conspiracy of Silence Ojo Taiye Nigeria </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Edge of the State Trish Bennett Fermanagh </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The High Garden Caimin Rooney Dublin </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Invisible House Brian Kirk Dublin </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">to make a doll Angus Strachan England</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-48411745657884254092021-01-10T10:00:00.006+00:002021-01-17T09:47:20.643+00:00Competition Long List<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Below
we reveal the titles (in alphabetical order) of the thirty poems which have
been selected by judge, Jean O’Brien, as a long list from the over 350 poems
entered in the 2021 Trim Poetry Competition.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Congratulation
to the poets whose poems are here but also to all who entered. Jean commented
on how high the standard was and how difficult her task was. We would like to
thank Jean for her efficient judging of the competition. The long list is a
tribute to her familiarity with and appreciation of the wide variety of poetic
possibilities with poems of many and varied styles and forms included.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Longlist</span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Census<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Clare O'Reilly<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kildare<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Chalk Circle<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Máirín O'Grady<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dublin<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Chang Cheng<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Amy Barry<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Westmeath<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Day Room Days<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Lynda Tavakoli<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Down<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Echolocation<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Marian Oxley<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>England<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Excision<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>Daragh Byrne<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Australia<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Flints <span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Anna Forbes<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Scotland<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">hunter, gatherer<span style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Mary Mulholland<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>England <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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We hope to be able to announce a long list of twenty by 10 January and then the short list in a week or two after that. The exact format of a prizegiving is still uncertain but obviously there won't be any physical Trim Poetry Festival or prizegiving at the end of March 2021. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-62204248862673464752020-10-02T19:45:00.001+01:002020-10-03T10:01:37.647+01:00Trim Poetry Competition 2021<p>Trim Poetry Competition is now open for entries. Entries close on 30 November 2020.</p><p><b><u>Competition Rules</u></b></p><p>Entries are only accepted online by email to this address: <a href="mailto:trimpoetry@gmail.com">trimpoetry@gmail.com</a></p><p>Competitors pay by PayPal on this blog on the right. Entry Fee: €5 per poem or €10 for three poems.</p><p>Please type <b>Trim Poetry Competition</b> in the subject line of the email.</p><p>The body of the email must include the PayPal transaction number, the entrant's name, address, phone number, and title/titles of the entered poems.</p><p>The poem/poems must be attached as a single Word document. The poems should be in Times New Roman, 12 point, single spacing and must not exceed 60 lines (excluding title and stanza breaks). The name of the entrant must not appear on the poems themselves. </p><p>All poems must be the original work of the entrant, written in English. Poems must not have been previously published, self-published, published on a website or broadcast. Entrants must be 18 years or over.</p><p>All poems are judged completely anonymously, and judges read all entries. The judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence can be entered into regarding those decisions. Current members of Boyne Writers Group are not eligible to enter.</p><p>The prize for the winner is 500 euro. Two runners-up will receive 100 euro each. </p><p>The judge is Irish poet Jean O'Brien. </p><p>The judges’ shortlist of ten will be announced on 31 Jan 2021and included on this blog. Shortlisted poets only will be notified by email and invited to read their poems, in person or virtually, at a launch on Saturday afternoon 13 March 2021. The prizewinners will be announced at that launch and all the shortlisted poems will be published in Boyne Berries 29 which will be launched then either as a PDF or a paper version. Details of the launch will depend on the position as regarding Covid 19 at that time.</p><p>Submission of a poem implies the competitor’s acceptance of the conditions set out above.</p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-22313056197069053032020-06-07T19:27:00.002+01:002020-06-07T19:27:49.795+01:00Trim Poetry Festival Day 3 - Sunday 7 June 2020<span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><b>11am: "Tips on How to Sustain a Flourishing Writing Practice"</b> - Clinic by Anne Tannam in which she e</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">xplores ways to help writers sustain their writing practice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">"Troubles" may be purchased on the <a href="https://limerickwriterscentre.com/product/troubles/">Revival Press website</a> or on <a href="http://michaelfarry.blogspot.com/">Michael Farry's blog</a>.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-47882683146298629052020-06-05T19:37:00.002+01:002020-06-07T12:34:34.515+01:00Trim Poetry Festival - Friday 5 June 2020<b>Festival Opening and Welcome</b><br />
by Boyne Writers chair Michael Farry, Welcome to Trim by Noel French, chair of Trim Municipal District and by Trim Tourist Network.<br />
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<b>Launch of Boyne Berries 27 </b><br />
by editor, Orla Fay and readings by contributors Gerard Smyth, Felicity McCarthy, John D Kelly, Lorraine Carey, Peter Goulding and Sinéad MacDevitt.<br />
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Readings by contributors Maria Isakova Bennett, Glenn Hubbard, Mark Ward, Elizabeth McGeown, Diarmuid Fitzgerald, Kate Ennals and Kevin Graham.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6pm Welcome </b>by Noel French, chair of Trim Municipal District, Trim tourism Network, and Boyne Writers Group chair, Michael Farry. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Launch of Boyne Berries 27 by editor Orla Fay. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Readings by a number of contributors to Boyne Berries 27. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Saturday 6 June</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>10am </b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;">Online workshop </b><span style="font-size: large;">by festival poet-in-residence Anne Tannam. </span><span style="font-size: large;">This free course is now booked out. See the clinic details below which also includes an email address should you wish to inquire about other Anne Tannam workshops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11.30am Celebrating Boyne Berries Covers. </b>Slideshows highlighting the striking covers designed by Greg Hastings and Rory O'Sullivan for Boyne Berries magazine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3pm Readings by members of local writers groups</b> including </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Frank Murphy of Meath Writers Circle, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Polly Richardson and members of the Bull’s Arse group, Navan and members of LitLab, the Cavan/Meath Writers Group. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Introduction by judge Orla Fay.
Readings by the winner, the runners up and the shortlisted poets. See results already published in the Trim Poetry Competition Results 2020 page below or at the side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>7pm Poetry Reading by Anne Tannam</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Anne Tannam is a Dublin poet with two published collections: <i>Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor </i>(Salmon Poetry 2017) and <i>Take This Life</i> (WordOnTheStreet 2011). Her third, <i>Twenty-six Letters of a New Alphabet, </i>is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in summer 2020. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>11am "Tips on How to Sustain a Flourishing Writing Practice"</b> - Clinic by Anne Tannam. </span><span style="font-size: large;">During this clinic, which w</span><span style="font-size: large;">ill take the form of a pre-recorded video,</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Anne will explore ways to help writers sustain their writing practice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Launch of Michael Farry’s new poetry collection, “Troubles” by Anne Tannam. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome by the publisher Dominic Taylor of Revival Press. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Reading from the collection by the author. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6pm Some poet friends </b>who have had long associations with Boyne Berries, including Carolyne Van Der Meer, Kate Dempsey and Maurice Devitt, read their poems from the recently published Boyne Berries - The Covid Issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>8pm Open Mic on Zoom</b>. Rachel Coventry, the MC, will open this fifteen minutes before start and people can register to read on a first come basis. Five minutes each. More details here closer to the time.</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-30090532786350106502020-03-14T08:07:00.000+00:002020-05-13T18:13:29.952+01:00Trim Poetry Competition 2020 ResultsUnfortunately Trim Poetry Festival 2020 has been postponed and with it the Trim Poetry Competition prize-giving. We hope to run the competition and the prize-giving later in the year. But we are announcing the winner and runners-up and they have received their prizes.<br />
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<u><b>Winner: </b></u><br />
Patrick Lodge, UK for his poem <i>Postcard from Symi</i><br />
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Maeve McKenna, Sligo for her poem <i>Tree Felling at Lissadell</i><br />
Matt Hohner, USA for his poem <i>Bearing the Weight of Light</i><br />
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<i>Bird's Eye View </i>by Catherine Conlon, Kildare.<br />
<i>In the Darkroom </i>by John D Kelly, Fermanagh.<br />
<i>Light Rail </i>by David Butler, Wicklow.<br />
<i>Little Snowdrops </i>by Martin Sykes, Mayo.<br />
<i>Mizpah Ring, Man's, circa 1902 </i>by Maria Isakova Bennett, UK.<br />
<i>Nature Lesson </i>by Marian Brannigan, Louth.<br />
<i>Talking in Pictures </i>by Karen O'Connor, Kerry.<br />
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Congratulations to the winner, the runners-up , the shortlisted and all who supported the competition.<br />
Thanks also to judges, Orla Fay and Michael Farry.<br />
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anything is possible. Such as the two</div>
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Skittish, as if about to start a <i>sousta simiaki</i></div>
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Please note that due to the current health crisis Trim Poetry Festival and all associated events, Boyne Berries launch, Poetry Competition results, launch of "Troubles", workshop etc have been postponed.</h3>
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The standard was very high and judging difficult. Finally the two judges, Orla Fay and Michael Farry, have announced the shortlist.<br />
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These poems will be included in Boyne Berries 27 to be launched on 13 March 2020 at Trim Poetry Festival and the winner and two runners-up will be announced the following evening.<br />
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Bearing the Weight of Light by Matt Hohner, USA.<br />
Bird's Eye View by Catherine Conlon, Kildare.<br />
In the Darkroom by John D Kelly, Fermanagh.<br />
Light Rail by David Butler, Wicklow.<br />
Little Snowdrops by Martin Sykes, Mayo.<br />
Mizpah Ring, Man's, circa 1902 by Maria Isakova Bennett, UK.<br />
Nature Lesson by Marian Brannigan, Louth.<br />
Postcard from Symi by Patrick Lodge, UK.<br />
Talking in Pictures by Karen O'Connor, Kerry.<br />
Tree Felling at Lissadell by Maeve McKenna, Sligo.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-9983712343588106252020-01-14T15:37:00.000+00:002020-02-13T19:24:37.306+00:00Trim Poetry Festival 2020<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Trim Poetry Festival 2020, organized by Boyne Writers Group, will take place on Friday and Saturday,13 and 14 March 2020. A poetry competition is being held in conjunction with the festival. Entries </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">closed on February 12. A shortlist will be posted here towards the end of February 2020.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Reading by Pat Dunne.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pat Dunne, born in Trim, Co. Meath, is an internationally successful crime writer. Dunne studied English and Philosophy at UCD and worked as Press Officer for Bord na gCapall before joining RTÉ Radio where he produced the station’s flagship Gerry Ryan Show. He retired in 2004 to become a full-time writer. Meath’s history and heritage feature prominently in his archaeological thrillers. Dunne is also a regular contributor to Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1 and lives in Celbridge, Co. Kildare, with his wife Theckla. .</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Poetry Workshop </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">with festival poet in residence, Anne Tannam. Cost per person, 20 euro.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anne Tannam is a Dublin poet with two collections: Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor (Salmon Poetry 2017) and Take This Life (WordOnTheStreet 2011). A spoken word artist, Anne has performed at festivals and events in Ireland and abroad. She is co-founder of the weekly Dublin Writers’ Forum and regularly runs literary events across Dublin. <a href="https://www.creativecoaching.ie/about/">Check her website</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><b>2.30 – 4.30: </b>Anne Tannam individual coaching clinics. These 30 minute sessions will provide support and expert advice around whatever issue or challenge is facing you in your writing practice. Use the <i><b>Book an Anne Tannam Individual Clinic Session</b></i> link on the right to book a clinic. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><b>2.30 </b><b>–</b><b> 4.30: </b>Readings by local Writers Groups and Open Mic. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><b>5.00 – 6.00: </b>Trim Poetry Competition Results. </span><span style="color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Winner and runners-up announced. First prize €500. Two runners up prizes of €100 each. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">All shortlisted poets are invited to read.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><b>7.00 </b><b>–</b><b> 7.30: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Poetry reading by Anne Tannam.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><b>7.30 </b><b>–</b><b> 8.00:</b> Tea/Coffee break.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><b>8.00 – 9.30:</b> Launch of “Troubles” a new poetry collection by Boyne Writers member Michael Farry. </span><span style="color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Launch by Anne Tannam.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-44394853652576684952020-01-08T20:21:00.001+00:002020-02-13T19:25:36.990+00:00Trim Poetry Competition 2020<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #100766; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-IE">This competition closed on 12 February 2020. A shortlist will be published before the end of February.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-IE">Entries are only accepted online by email to this address: </span><a href="mailto:trimpoetry@gmail.com" style="color: #888888; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>trimpoetry@gmail.com</i></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">Competitors pay by PayPal on this blog on the right. </span>Entry fee: one poem for 5 euro, three poems for 10 euro.</div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">The poem/poems to be entered must be sent as a single attachment. The body of the email must include the PayPal transaction number, the entrant's name, address, phone number, and title/titles of the entered poems.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">The poems should be in Times New Roman, 12 point, single spacing and must not exceed 60 lines (excluding title and stanza b</span><span lang="EN-IE">reaks). The name of the entrant must not appear on the poems themselves. All poems must be the original work of the entrant, written in English. Poems must not have been previously published, self-published or published on a website, or broadcast. Entrants must be 18 years or over.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><br /></span>All poems are judged completely anonymously, and judges read all entries. The judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence can be entered into regarding those decisions. Current members of Boyne Writers Group are not eligible to enter.</div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><br /></span><span lang="EN-IE">The judges are: Orla Fay, editor of Boyne Berries, and Michael Farry, former editor of Boyne Berries.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">The judges’ shortlist of ten will be announced towards the end of February 2019 and included on this blog. Shortlisted poets only will be notified by email and invited to read their poems at Trim Poetry Festival, Co. Meath, Ireland, on Saturday afternoon 14 March 2020. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">The prize for the winner is 500 euro. Two runners-up will recieve 100 euro each. </span></div>
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The prize-winner of the competition will be announced during the festival. The winner and the other short-listed poems will be published in Boyne Berries 27 which will be launched on Friday 13 March 2020..</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Submission of a poem implies the competitor’s acceptance of the conditions set out above.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080379853949528769.post-41798867098301674492019-11-11T19:44:00.001+00:002019-11-11T20:02:47.106+00:00Trim Poetry Festival 2020Trim Poetry Festival 2020 will take place on Friday/Saturday 13/14 March 2020. More details later but Friday evening will include the launch of Boyne Berries magazine issue 27 and readings by contributors.<br />
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Submissions will soon be open for Boyne Berries 27. <a href="http://boyneberries.blogspot.com/">Check the website.</a><br />
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Saturday will have a poetry workshop by the Festival Poet, Anne Tannam, readings by local writers groups, the announcement and readings of the winners of the Poetry Competition and a reading by Anne Tannam.<br />
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The Poetry Competition will open on 1 December 2019 and close on 12 January 2020. For rules etc see the link to the page on the right.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0