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Detail from Composition (circa 1922) by Mainie Jellett Gainor Crist, a new poem by Harry Clifton
  • Harry Clifton

Poetry Submissions Please send submissions to poetry@irishtimes.com. Submissions to any other email or by post will not be considered. No single-poem submissions. Please submit selection of 3/4 poems and brief bio, attached in Word doc. Due to volume of submissions, it is not possible to provide feedback on individual poems. If poems are not accepted, there should be no further submission for six months, and if published, for a year.
 Portrait of John Keats by Joseph Severn.  Photograph: DeAgostini/Getty Images The lost nightingale, a poem in memory of John Keats
  • Nessa O’Mahony
  • February 27, 2021

A new work by Nessa O’Mahony

Greg Delanty. Photograph: Brian MacDonald Poem of the week: One More Time
  • Martin Doyle
  • February 20, 2021

A new poem by Greg Delanty

Titus's Garden: Lucius Pursued by Lavinia (Titus Andronicus, Act 4, Scene 1), from Boydell's Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare (1793). Engraving by Thomas Kirk Poem of the week: Plague Season
  • Mary O’Malley
  • February 13, 2021

A new work by Mary O’Malley

Sandpipers pattering to and fro. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto Poem of the week: Sandpipers at Rosslare
  • Bernard O’Donoghue
  • February 6, 2021

A new work by Bernard O’Donoghue

‘trusting them the most to keep my feet warm’
Poem of the week: Reading Natalia Ginzburg in East Cork
  • Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
  • January 30, 2021

A new poem by Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

The "Field of Flags" on the National Mall as the US Capitol Building ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Photograph: Timothy Clary/AFP/Getty Images Poem of the week: On the 2021 Presidential Inauguration
  • Carmen Bugan
  • January 20, 2021

A new poem by Carmen Bugan

Bernard Loughlin, who ran the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig in Co Monaghan from 1981 to 1999 Poem of the week: Before It Happened
  • Gibbons Ruark
  • January 16, 2021

Jean O’Brien Poem of the week: Still Here by Jean O’Brien
  • Jean O’Brien
  • January 9, 2021

Dermot Bolger Poem of the week: Making Things Happen by Dermot Bolger
  • Dermot Bolger
  • January 2, 2021

Tara Bergin Poem of the week: Ovid-19 by Tara Bergin
  • Tara Bergin
  • December 19, 2020

Derek Mahon – an appreciation. Photograph: John Minihan Poem of the week: Make-believe by Gerald Dawe
  • Gerald Dawe
  • December 12, 2020

A poem in memory of Derek Mahon – 1941-2020

Poem of the week: Lockdown Boogie
  • Audrey Molloy
  • December 5, 2020

By Audrey Molloy

Notes Towards a Supreme Afternoon, by Sean O’Brien. Photograph: Getty Images. Poem of the week: Notes Towards a Supreme Afternoon
  • Sean O’Brien
  • November 28, 2020

By Sean O’Brien

Mary O’Donnell. Poem of the Week: Hanging House in a Canal, by Mary O’Donnell
  • Mary O’Donnell
  • November 21, 2020

Grace Wilentz. Poem of the week: Wild Horses, by Grace Wilentz
  • Grace Wilentz
  • November 14, 2020

John F Deane The Green Plover: A new poem by John F Deane
  • John F Deane
  • November 7, 2020

Photograph: Getty New poem: Some Things I Am Finding on Zoom®
  • Paula Cunningham
  • October 31, 2020

By Paula Cunningham

Amanda Bell. Photograph: Alan Betson Poem of the week: Aubade, by Amanda Bell
  • Amanda Bell
  • October 24, 2020

Poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Photograph: Brian McGovern Intimations, a new poem by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  • October 17, 2020

A  spectator emerges from the Gorse during the Irish Amateur Open Championship st Portmarnock Golf Club. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Poetry: The Flourishing Shrub
  • Paul Murray
  • October 10, 2020

A new work by Paul Murray

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 A procession  of uniformed Cumann na mBan that paraded to Glasnevin Cemetery carrying four biers representing the four executed Irish Republican leaders. Photograph:  George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images Women and the Irish Revolution: Vital and valuable insights
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William J Donovan,  envoy for US president Franklin D Roosevelt,  with taoiseach Éamon de Valera in Dublin in 1941. Photograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images De Valera and Roosevelt by Bernadette Whelan: Irish-US relations in the 1930s
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Detail from Composition (circa 1922) by Mainie Jellett Gainor Crist, a new poem by Harry Clifton
 Portrait of John Keats by Joseph Severn.  Photograph: DeAgostini/Getty Images The lost nightingale, a poem in memory of John Keats
Greg Delanty. Photograph: Brian MacDonald Poem of the week: One More Time
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