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Result of Belfast Book Festival Slam 2022

12/6/2022

 
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!
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24 hour chapbook challenge II: sea

2/5/2022

 
Welcome to the second in our sporadic series of 24-hour chapbooks. The idea for this chapbook you’re now reading came from a simple thought: would it be possible to write, format and release a booklet within the space of just twenty-four hours?
 
A callout for poets to take part when out of social media at the start of the week. They signed up, only knowing that a prompt would be received at some stage that week. On Sunday 1st Mat at 6.30pm, the prompt was sent: just one word, ‘Sea’, and a picture: Two Crabs (1889) by Vincent Van Gogh. The painting is a personal favourite, although only one crab is featured on the cover here – the crab on the left of the painting is displaying its underbelly, and not as visually pleasing, but the picture had already inspired two poems from myself previously, so it must be doing something right…
 
What you read now is the combined efforts of all the poets; many thanks to all of them for agreeing to take part and sending in their work. 

Download for free via Rancid Idols Productions.

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Congratulations to our 2021 Book Festival winner...

14/6/2021

 
Last night saw our first online slam, thanks to the Belfast Book Festival! And after three rounds, our 2021 Slampion and winner of the Brian Bailey Memorial Cup is Elizabeth McGeown!

Congratulations also to our finalists, Mel Bradley & Cat Brogan (joint 2nd), and Gaynor Kane (4th). Well done to everyone who entered, and thank you for giving us such an entertaining evening.

Many thanks also to the staff at Crescant Arts Centre for making the whole online event possible, and guest judge Siobhan McCafferty for helping with the scores and sharing some of her work.
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Belfast Book Festival Poetry Slam 2021

13/5/2021

 
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It's been very quiet here in Poetry NI HQ during the pandemic. We're a small, unfunded team, and we've been dealing with the delights of long-Covid, personal illness and family illness unfortunately, meaning we haven't been able to be very active on the poetry front at all recently.

However... we are delighted to announced that once again we are back at the Belfast Book Festival in June for our annual Poetry Slam! This year's festival is all online (for the obvious reasons), and we're asking you to join us via Zoom for an evening of digital dramatics, online odes and Internet imagery on Sunday 13th June at 8pm.

Full detail and tickets are available via the Festival Box Office. You can purchase either an Entrant ticket, or a Spectator ticket. Many thanks to the kind team at Crescent Art Centre for helping us be part of this year's line-up.

Running from the 10 - 13 June, this year's Festival, which takes place online, covers a wide variety of themes - including feminism, grief, family, disability, sexuality, body image and the care system. Take a peek at the programme here: belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on

Submission Call: 'Covidioms'

26/3/2020

 
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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.
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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.

Purely Poetry Update

17/3/2020

 
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.

Audio Anthology for International Women's Day

6/3/2020

 
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Poetry NI presents an audio anthology of fifteen women poets, to celebrate International Women's Day 2020.

We invited a range of poets whose work we enjoy and admire to send in renditions of their own poems. The themes and issues are diverse and distinct, but all have one thing in common: simply great writing.

The album is free to stream and download via Bandcamp. Just enter your email address, and a download link will be send to you. The album will download as a zip file, and you can choose which format to download in: MP3, WAV, FLAC, etc.

​Visit unwomen.org to find our more about International Women's Day and how you can get involved.

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