Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry

The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry is located at Queen's University Belfast, and named after the late Seamus Heaney, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Heaney graduated from Queens in 1961 with a First Class Honours in English language and literature.[1]

Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
Formation2004 (2004)
TypeTeaching and Research Centre
Location
  • 46-48 University Road, Belfast BT7 1NJ
Director
Glenn Patterson
Websitewww.qub.ac.uk/schools/seamus-heaney-centre/

It was officially opened in February 2004 and its founding director was the poet and Queen's graduate Ciaran Carson.[2][3] Carson retired as director in 2016 and was replaced by Fran Brearton and then by Glenn Patterson.[4]

On 30 April 2009, it gave Heaney a 70th birthday party involving a literary evening.[5]

First Collection Poetry Prize

The prize is awarded to a poet whose first collection of poetry has been published in the previous year by a UK- or Ireland-based publisher.[6] It is part of the Seamus Heaney Legacy Project funded by Atlantic Philanthropies. The winner receives £5,000 and is invited to give the Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry at New York University with travel accommodation and a $1,000 honorarium included.

Previous recipients of the Prize are:

  • 2019 - Ned Denny for Unearthly Toys (Carcanet)[7]
  • 2018 - Richard Osmond for Useful Verses (Picador Poetry);
  • 2017 - Adam Crothers for Several Deer (Carcanet)
  • 2016 - Kate Miller for The Observances (Carcanet)
  • 2015 - Fiona Benson for Bright Travellers (Cape Poetry)
  • 2014 - Tara Bergin for This is Yarrow (Carcanet)
  • 2013 - Sarah Jackson for Pelt (Bloodaxe Books)

References
  1. Madden, Anne (22 December 2011). "Seamus Heaney's papers go to Dublin, but we don't mind, insists QUB". The Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
  2. "Seamus Heaney poetry centre for Belfast". RTÉ Entertainment. 17 February 2004. Retrieved 17 February 2004.
  3. "Indian, Irish poets create world's first cultural event". India Edunews. 17 November 2009. Retrieved 17 November 2009.
  4. "Queen's University Belfast - The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry".
  5. "'Birthday Party' Celebrates Poetry of Seamus Heaney". 4NI. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
  6. "First Collection Poetry Prize | Seamus Heaney Centre". www.qub.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  7. "News | Seamus Heaney Centre". www.qub.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-27.


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