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Patrick James Errington has been announced as the winner of the 2024 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for his debut poetry collection 'The Swailing'. This is the sixth year of the prize, which is awarded annually for an outstanding debut collection of poetry in the English language. Valued at €10,000, the prize is sponsored by the John Pollard Foundation and administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English at Trinity.

Many congratulations to Deirdre Madden who is one of the latest Irish writers awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize. Deirdre is the Co-Director of the M.Phil. in Creative Writing course in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre. The Windham-Campbell prizes are global English-language awards that call attention to literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns. Prize winners receive an unrestricted grant of $175,000. Awards are made by nomination only.

The shortlist for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2024 has been announced by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre. This is the sixth year of the prize, awarded annually for an outstanding debut collection of poetry in the English language. Valued at €10,000, the prize is sponsored by the John Pollard Foundation, and administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. The patron of the John Pollard Foundation is Stephen Vernon, who named the Foundation in memory of his grandfather, John Pollard. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Trinity on April 11th.

Many congratulations to Dr. Seán Hewitt on the launch of his lastest poetry collection 'Rapture's Road'. 'In this remarkable second collection, Seán Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the Sunday Times 30 under 30 in Ireland.'

School of English graduate Rory O'Connor (2019) has recently published an edited collection of essays by the twentieth-century writer and philosopher Owen Barfield (1898-1997). With C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and others, Barfield was part of the Inklings group in Oxford in the 1930s. Over the course of his long career he published in areas such as poetic diction, imagination, consciousness, and spirituality. Rory's selection of Barfield's essays is a brilliant introduction for those unfamiliar with the author's work, and a useful selection for those who wish to reacquaint themselves with the ideas of an important figure in the intellectual and cultural history of the twentieth century.