Our Judge, Patrick Lodge, has chosen the winners from the shortlist of ten.
Winner: Funeral Music by Niamh Twomey
Runners-Up: My Grandmother lays out the Dead by Caroline Gilfillan
Listening to the Grain by Gerard Walsh
Congratulations to the winner and runners-up, thanks to all who entered and a special thank you to our judge, Patrick Lodge.
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.
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.
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 the closing date for the competition has been extended to 31 December 2021.
Competition Rules
Entries are only accepted online by email to this address: trimpoetry@gmail.com
Competitors will pay by PayPal on this blog. Entry Fee: 5 euro per poem or 10 euro for three poems.
You can also send an entry fee by your own PayPal account to trimpoetry@gmail.com
Please type Trim Poetry Competition in the subject line of the email.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The prize for the winner is 500 euro. Two runners-up will receive 100 euro each.
The judge is poet Patrick Lodge.
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.
Submission of a poem implies the competitor’s acceptance of the conditions set out above.
This was the third annual Trim Poetry Festival and the second virtual festival.
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.
7pm: Poetry Reading by Orla Fay from her chapbook “Drawn to the Light”.
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.
6pm: Poetry Reading by Jean O’Brien.
4pm: Results of Trim Poetry Competition 2021: Introduction and comments by the judge, Jean O’Brien, with readings by the winner, the runners up and some of the shortlisted poets.
3pm: Readings by members of Boyne Writers Group.
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.
Here is the programme.
10am: Live Online Poetry Workshop by Anne Tannam.
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.
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..
Introduction and Comments by the judge, Jean
O’Brien.
Readings by the winner, the runners up and some of the shortlisted poets.
6pm: Poetry
Reading by Jean O’Brien.
Jean O’Brien has five poetry collections to her name; The Shadow Keeper (1997), Dangerous Dresses (2005), Lovely Legs (2009), Merman (2012) and Fish On A Bicycle: New & Selected Poems (2016 & 2018). 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.
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.
Five minutes each. Use this link to join the Zoom Opem Mic. The room opens at 7.45pm and 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.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5340756676 : Meeting ID: 534 075 6676
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.
Here is the result of the Trim Poetry Competition 2021.
Winner:
to make a doll Angus Strachan England
Runners-Up:
Echolocation Marian Oxley England
The Invisible House Brian Kirk Dublin
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.
A special thanks to our judge, Jean O’Brien, for carrying out her task in such an efficient, professional manner.
We hope to have a virtual prize-giving reading at our virtual Trim Poetry Festival 2021 in mid-March. More details later.
This is the short list of ten in alphabetical order.
The winner and two runners-up will be revealed on Sunday next 24 January.
Echolocation Marian Oxley England
hunter, gatherer Mary Mulholland England
In the Republic of Nuns Karen McDonnell Clare
Je ne regrette rien Siobhán Flynn Dublin
Normal People Frank Murphy Meath
The Conspiracy of Silence Ojo Taiye Nigeria
The Edge of the State Trish Bennett Fermanagh
The High Garden Caimin Rooney Dublin
The Invisible House Brian Kirk Dublin
to make a doll Angus Strachan England
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.
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.
Longlist
Census Clare O'Reilly Kildare
Chalk Circle Máirín O'Grady Dublin
Chang Cheng Amy Barry Westmeath
Day Room Days Lynda Tavakoli Down
Echolocation Marian Oxley England
Excision Daragh Byrne Australia
Flints Anna Forbes Scotland
hunter, gatherer Mary Mulholland England
In the Republic of Nuns Karen McDonnell Clare
Je ne regrette rien Siobhán Flynn Dublin
Jocelyn Bell Burnell Speaks ... Derek Sellen England
Leaning In Peggy McCarthy Waterford
Learning to Smoke and Other Things Bernie Crawford Galway
Love Bernie Crawford Galway
Normal People Frank Murphy Meath
Ode to My Vocation Boswell Partridge USA
Plague Years Peter Branson England
Poem for my Grand-daughter David Punter UK
River Bird, Know Your Place Ojo Taiye Nigeria
Rock Pool George Hopewell England
Season of Brigid Anne Casey Australia
Sing It Peadar O'Donoghue Wicklow
the ABCDery of mother’s gardening Angus Strachan England
The Conspiracy of Silence Ojo Taiye Nigeria
The Edge of the State Trish Bennett Fermanagh
The High Garden Caimin Rooney Dublin
The Invisible House Brian Kirk Dublin
The New Math Boswell Partridge USA
to make a doll Angus Strachan England
Wishbone Sighle Meehan Galway
Our judge, Jean O'Brien, is finalizing her selections of listed and winners in the 2021 Trim Poetry Competition. 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.
Trim Poetry Competition is now open for entries. Entries close on 30 November 2020.
Competition Rules
Entries are only accepted online by email to this address: trimpoetry@gmail.com
Competitors pay by PayPal on this blog on the right. Entry Fee: €5 per poem or €10 for three poems.
Please type Trim Poetry Competition in the subject line of the email.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The prize for the winner is 500 euro. Two runners-up will receive 100 euro each.
The judge is Irish poet Jean O'Brien.
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.
Submission of a poem implies the competitor’s acceptance of the conditions set out above.
Trim Poetry Festival was postponed in March and because it seems very unlikely that there will be an opportunity to hold it later this year we have decided to hold an online version over the week-end of 5-7 June. It will be held as a Facebook event and also published on this blog
