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Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27th 2023 encourages remembrance in a world scarred by genocide. The international day remembers the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and in genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. The theme for 2023 is Ordinary People.  We are looking for poems in memorial, in protest, reflecting or looking forward, poems that lament but also inspire that tie in with the theme of Ordinary People: perpetrators as ordinary people, persecuted people as ordinary people, rescuers as ordinary people, and ordinary people as bystanders
All accepted poems will be published in a free downloadable e-pamphlet, to be released on HMD 2023. To help inspire you, read more about this year's theme on the HMD website, and have a look at our HMD anthology from 2016. Submission Guidelines: Send a maximum of three poems in one Word document. Please include a brief third-person biog with your submission (max. 50 words). Email your poems to thepenpointsnorth@outlook.com. Deadline: 18th December 2022.  It's been a while gestating over the period of the pandemic, but at long last, here is Issue 13 of Panning For Poems, our micropoetry broadside!
Issue Thirteen features: Eilín de Paor, Diarmuid ó Maolalaí, Karen Neuberg, Madelaine Smith, Conor Orrico, Mark Ward, Changming Yuam, Mari Maxwell, Attracta Fahy, Paul Butterfield Jr. and John Caulfield. Submissions now open for future issues. Massive congratulations to our JOINT WINNERS David Braziel and Helen Hastings of our Belfast Book Festival Poetry Slam 2022. Well done also to fellow finalists Raquel McKee and David Mitchell, and indeed to all our poets who entered and graced us with their work. Big thanks to the hard working team at Crescent Arts Centre for helping make the night a success, and to guest judges Elizabeth McGeown (who presented the Brian Baily Memorial Cup to the winners) and Mark Cooper - what an great way to round off the first weekend of the festival! 
 We're putting together a collaborative poem about life under lockdown, and we need YOUR help!
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and social lockdown, life is changing. With developments and headlines moving rapidly, loved ones shut off from each other, people working from homes and public amenitiies closed, we are having to get used to a life indoors, and for some, a life rapidly more online. Life insists, and persists. Poetry NI wants to capture people's responses to this crisis, and naturally, we feel the best way to do this is through poetry. We are asking people to send in a haiku, giving a snapshot of their life under lockdown. Together, these haiku will form a sequence, a haikai, detailing people's lives, which will be published in an e-pamphlet, available for free download from our website. This will be a one off Panning for Poems special edition. Just complete the online entry form to submit. All submissions must be in by Sunday, April 12th. In wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and developing Government guidelines, we feel that regrettably it would be best to put Purely Poetry on hold for the moment, until this uncertain period of social distancing passes.
As much as we love poetry and bringing people together, we feel unfortunately it just would be unsafe and irresponsible for the open mic night to continue right now. Obviously, we take this decision with a heavy heart. We fully support the Crescent Arts Centre and their own closure, and wish all staff there well. We will be back whenever it is safe to. In the meantime, stay safe and well, and thank you for your support. |
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