Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry

For the eighth year, Glucksman Ireland House will welcome the winner of one of the poetry world’s most coveted prizes, the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection as judged by a select committee at Queens University Belfast. This year’s judges were Professor Nick Laird, Chair of Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre; Professor Edna Longley, critic and Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University Belfast; and Dr Stephen Sexton, poet and lecturer at the Seamus Heaney Centre.
The winner, Ned Denny, will read from his Unearthly Toys: Poems and Masks, (Carcanet Press, 2018) at the annual Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry. Ned will also read at the Irish Arts Center’s Poetryfest.