Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2019

Absolutely thrilled for Kathleen McCracken winning the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, a very fine poem to add to an already outstanding body of work. Many thanks to Community Arts Partnership and Arts Council of Northern Ireland for their provision and support with the award. It was a delight to be longlisted, and to be able to share my poem at Seamus Heaney Homeplace in Bellaghy with the other listed poets at the awards event.

If you want to know a bit more about Kathleen, here's an interview with her I did back in 2015, when her New and Selected Poems was released.