First Collection Poetry Prize
The First Collection Poetry Prize celebrates the work of the Seamus Heaney Centre and honours Heaney himself. It is awarded to a writer whose first, full collection has been published in the preceding year, by a UK or Ireland-based publisher. The winner receives £5,000.
The Poetry Prize is awarded as part of the Seamus Heaney Legacy Project, a joint 10-year fund between Queen's University Belfast and the Arts Council for Northern Ireland, generously supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies.
Previous Winners
Image: First Collection Poetry Prize 2019 Judges Stephen Sexton, Nick Laird, and Edna Longley, with the Winner, Ned Denny
Some of the exellent titles from previous year's include:
2021 - Sumita Chakraborty, Arrow (Carcanet)
2020 - Laura Scott, So Many Rooms (Carcanet)
2019 - Ned Denny, Unearthly Toys: Poems and Masks (Carcanet)
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